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Show - 2 - graphed, and distributed the following day to the students. In their time outside of classes they made dressings. The technique taught was that of multiple tangential pricking of the skin through a drop of vaccine, as first published in the Public Health Reports of the United States Public Health Service, and shown to give a high proportion of successful vaccinations. Each student was vaccinated on the first day to give him a demonstration of the course of vaccinia. On the last day a practical and written examination was held and twenty-one were given diplomas. Short exercises were conducted by representatives of the committee which had organized the campaign. A few students from surrounding counties were allowed to attend the classes as auditors and to buy supplies. Some delay was caused by waiting for the vaccine, and much negotiation was necessary before the money pledged was actually available, but work was started at just about the date when local custom has it that inoculations should be done, March 21st. The men worked in pairs. Nine pairs were allocated to the nine rural precincts and the three remaining men to the city. The salary was fifty cents a day for each worker, with an allowance of ten cents a day for each pair for expenses. Travel allowance was given those whose areas were at a distance. Each group carried a flag advertising their work and a large heavy cloth bundle in which was wrapped a wash-basin, five towels, a dozen bars of soap, a bottle of alcohol and a small alcohol lamp, packages of sterilized cotton and gauze pads, narrow strips adhesive plaster wound around neat sticks, several dozen tubes of vaccine, and needles. They were equipped with attractive posters in popular language with which to placard each village, a map, and a form letter to give to each village elder introducing them and explaining their work. Record books were provided showing the name, residence, name of head of family, sex, age, and whether or not previously vaccinated, inoculated, or a victim of smallpox, for each person vaccinated. Before leaving each village the village elder was asked to certify to the authenticity of the record by affixing his stamp. Each record book accommodated a hundred names. It was to be sent back to the secretary as soon as filled. Every few days messengers were sent into the country districts to carry the field workers new supplies and to bring back their reports. |