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action will have the effect of suppression of inoculation, especially as I know that
no inoculator can practice long without the vaccinators reporting it to me. Since
the time when Mr. Mansfield drew the attention of the Magistrates to the suppres-
sion of inoculation—nearly three years ago—it has virtually ceased, and at
the present time it is no obstacle to the spread of vaccination. I may
here mention an incident in regard to inoculation. Hassah Mull last year success-
fully vaccinated one of the Hydrabad Mecr's sons. A month afterwards the child
was variolously inoculated, but the only effect produced was a sore on the seat of
inoculation; this showed effectually the great protecting power of vaccination, and I
believe was viewed with agreeable surprise. Hassah Mull was presented with a very
handsome and valuable shawl by the Meer.
15. The only other real obstacle is the indifference of the mass of the people,
but even they, in general, accept vaccination when put to no trouble about it; and
when it is brought to their doors, it is only a very few Hindoos who really and abso-
lutely try to avoid it.
16. In paragraph 14 I have stated the measure adopted by the Commissioner
in Sind for the suppression of inoculation and my belief that it will be effectual. As
to the apathy in regard to protecting their children's lives by vaccination, it is doubt-
ful if that will ever be removed from the mass in any country ; even in Sweden it is
by the ever active and intelligent energy of Clergymen, Medical men, and Govern-
ment officials, that the mass of its inhabitants have been so thoroughly well protected
by vaccination as almost to have annihilated small-pox in that country. In Sind the
same kind of influence I am happy to say is ever at work. The obstinacy of the
Hindoos has a kind of religious element in it, or rather an element of fatalism, which
it is difficult to grapple; probably the best means short of compulsion would be the
publication of a Sindhi pamphlet on the subject of small-pox, inoculation and vaccina-
tion ; as a great many Hindoos can read Sindhi in at least some one of the characters
in which their language is written, it would I think do good, and it is the most fea-
sible way I can think of.
17. So much has been done by Mr. Mansfield for the more effectual spread of
vaccination, by increasing the number of vaccinators and for the suppression of inocula-
tion, that there is little more to be done but to work well with my establishment and
trust to time and vaccination's own merits. Perhaps a Sindhi pamphlet on the sub-
ject, as above mentioned, might have some influence with the Hindoos, and induce
them to accept vaccination more freely than they have ever yet done.
18. At the commencement of the past year I was engaged in Gotekee talooka,
Rohree district, inspecting the work of Genera! No. 79, Suroop Sing, and in every
respect it was found highly satisfactory. I saw over 1,600 vaccinated children in
63 villages, and only found three errors in his register ; they were: one child not vac-
cinated and one more vaccinated in two villages than were entered in his register¬
Suroop Sing deserves great credit for his care as a vaccinator, for his truthfulness
and for the exactness with which he keeps his records, especially when these are