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ding this subject, I would beg to recommend that a grade of Native Superintendents to
assist the European Officer be made in all establishments. It is worthy of note that
when Surgeon Pearson, some years ago, adopted the Bombay system of Vaccination in
the North-Western Provinces, he did not fail to strike the one blot in our system, and
he included in his establishments a grade of Native Assistant Superintendents.
4. In the opening paragraph of my Report on the progress of Vaccination in
Sind for the year 1866, I mentioned that only one small part of the province then
remained a virgin field for the Vaccinator ; that part was Veerow. I am happy to be
able to say that Assistant Vaccinator Lulloo (a Mussulman), when sent there last
September, found no difficulty in persuading the Koso Beloochees to accept vacci-
nation, and he vaccinated a considerable number of persons in the hills and dells
about Veerow, although Assistant Vaccinator Jettah Mull (a Hindoo) had a few
months previously been unable to succeed among those Koso Beloochees. No part of
Sind now remains unvaccinated.
5. It is again my pleasing duty to report that I and the Vaccinators have,
throughout the past year, received every assistance from the Revenue and Political
Officers in the province. I had particular occasion to call on Captain Bolton, the
Deputy Collector of Mahomed Khan's Tanda District, to use his influence to suppress
the practice of inoculation in his district. I would beg to express my thanks to him
for the kindly manner in which he responded to my request. Nothing could exceed
the great interest which Major Tyrwhitt takes in the spread of vaccination in the Thurr
and Parkur; and I can only thank him again for the attention he gives to the subject,
and for the assistance he has so often and so effectually given me. Nearly all the
Revenue and Political Officers are either my superiors or equals in rank, and I may not
presume to praise their conduct; but I heartily thank them for their ready help, without
which my utmost exertions would indeed be of little avail.
6. In the month of April last, Colonel Sir Henry Green asked me to lend a Vacci-
nator to His Highness the Khan of Khelat. On submitting the request to the late
Commissioner Mr. Mansfield, he gave me his sanction to lend a local Vaccinator to
His Highness. Accordingly, Kishen Chand was sent by Sir Henry Green to
Khelat, where he was employed for some time; but he found the people there object
so strongly to his taking lymph from the vesicles, wherewith to vaccinate other
children, that he could not keep his lymph going, and it appears that His Highness
the Khan was unwilling to force his subjects to allow lymph to be taken from the
vesicles. Kishen Chand informed me that there were no objections to vaccination;
that, in fact, they were glad to have it; but that the objection to allow the lymph to be
taken from the vesicles was insurmountable. Colonel Sir Henry Green considered it a
good opportunity for showing the benefits of vaccination to the people of Khelat, and
for introducing the practice among them. It may be hoped that the benefit derived
by the few hundreds whom Kishen Chand vaccinated may yet induce His Highness
to entertain Vaccinators of his own. If I thought my presence in Khelat could
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