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From Roree I marched through the Khyrepoor State and viâ Sukkrund and Kefroah to the
Oomerkote districts: en route I saw a few children in Taroosha, who were vaccinated in that
town by the hospital assistant there. In the Little Desert I examined the work of General
No. 199, Allah Bux, and found it satisfactory. Here I saw many adults who had freely
submitted themselves. A vaccinator had never before been here, and though the population
is thin, still this man had done a good deal of work ; whole villages, young and old, were
vaccinated ; they appeared very thankful for the services of the vaccinator. The vaccinator
said, that on first coming among these desert people they were very shy of him, but after
they became acquainted with his practice, they very willingly and gladly availed themselves of
the blessing sent them. Although this vaccinator is very young, he carried on his duty among
those peculiar people with very praiseworthy discretion. Many people came across the
boundary from the Khyrepoor State to have their children vaccinated by him, and also from
the Jeysulmeer State. After crossing the sand hills I went into Oomerkote, where I saw a
few children who had been vaccinated during the year by the hospital assistant there. Here
I met Captain Tyrwhitt, Political Superintendent of Thurr and Parker, who takes a very
great interest in vaccination; he looks upon it as a sure means of increasing the population
of his thinly peopled districts, and would gladly employ six vaccinators in his districts, but
I am sorry to say that I have only been able to spare him three. However, I shall now be
able to give him at least one more out of the Local Establishment. The hospital assistants
in his districts are working well, and with the amount of attention and care given to the
spread of vaccination by Captain Tyrwhitt, these districts will soon be as well protected as Sind.
After passing through Oomerkote I examined the work of General No. 142, Chellah
Ram, in the Nubeesur Tappa, and found it satisfactory in quality. From the Thurr
and Parkur Districts I returned into the Halla District, and in the Kardarate of Shahdadpoor
I examined some recent work of the head vaccinator, which was everything I could desire.
Thence I passed through Hydrabad into the Mahomed Khan's Tanda District, where in the
latter end of April I examined the lymph of General Nos. 212 and 197, and found the
vesicles very small, and numbers requiring to be re-vaccinated. These two hands were
not vaccinating as carefully as they ought to have done. The lymph in use had shortly
before been received from the Civil Hospital of Hydrabad, and had been just before
that propagated from tube-lymph received from London by Dr. Riddell. When I saw it,
the vesicles were very small and some of them badly shaped; however, there were many
characteristically formed. I took the vesicles under my own care, and by carefully
selecting the best and vaccinating from them, it improved very quickly, and in the course
of two weeks produced good vesicles; afterwards I took this lymph with me into
Shahbunder District and set it going in Meerpoor Buttora, where I had it under observation
for several weeks longer; the vesicles improved rapidly in size and their course and
progress were also correct. I examined the work of General No. 212 in the Mahomed
Khan's District, and found it satisfactory, with the exception of what I have said
regarding the lymph. The head vaccinator went through this apprentice's work to see
if any of it required doing over again; he reported that generally the children bore good
marks. Those I saw myself had very few unsuccessful or bad marks among them;
the lymph seems to have deteriorated just about the time I first saw it. In Meerpoor
Buttora I examined a good many children who had been vaccinated by the assistant
apothecary. In Shahbunder District I examined many villages in the Jar Tappa, which
had been gone over during the previous inundation months by General No. 197, Ichangee
Mull; I found that he had done his work well. From Shahbunder I again crossed the
Indus into Jerruck District, and then in the Meerpoor Saera Kardarate in the month of