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well done, his register correct, and lymph good. Thence passed up through Nowshera
Talooka, in which I saw the work of local vaccinator Thackoordass, who has worked uncom-
monly well considering how short a time he has been a vaccinator. I consider him one of
the best hands in the local establishment ; his lymph was good, his records very neatly kept
and true. From the Nowshera District I passed up through His Highness the Meer of
Kyrepoor's territory to Roree. I did not meet the vaccinator of Kyrepoor, and did not feel free
to go about the Meer's villages by myself; but I know that during the past year His Highness
the Meer's vaccinator has been steadily at work. In the town of Roree I saw some fresh
lymph on the arms of several children, and very fine vesicles they were, proving the utility of
capillary tubes in conveying lymph long distances, for this lymph was sent in tubes from
the other end of Sind. Hospital Assistant Sheikh Wallee is doing good work in Roree,
and doing it in good way. Thence passed up to the Talooka of Gotekee, in the town of that
name and several adjoining villages, saw the children who had been vaccinated by General
No. 79 Suroop Sing; this man's work I have always found well done and highly satisfactory.
To conclude, I have travelled in every District of Sind, except Thurr and Parkur. I have
examined every vaccinators' work, except the three in the Thurr and Parkur, and half the
number of the vaccinators' work has been twice examined within the year, a thing which has
never, I think, been done before. The oftener the vaccinators and their lymph are seen, the
better it is on all accounts. I would have gone into the Thurr and Parkur at the end
of the year, but on second thought, considered that I could be better spared there than
in Upper Sind, for I know that Captain Tyrwhitt keeps an eye on the progress of
vaccination in his districts; and here I would beg to bring to the notice of my superiors
how earnest and real the supervision is which he practises, as an instance of it, in
the Talooka of Saughur, Captain Tyrwhitt, on looking at some work performed by General
No. 199 Allah Bux, considered it so well done that he gave that vaccinator a reward in the
shape of a " lungi"—a kind of scarf. I need not say how very highly such a distinction
coming from an officer in Captain Tyrwhitt's position is valued, and how much effect a reward
has in causing the other vaccinators to emulate the work that deserved such an honour. I often
wish 1 had it in my power to confer some such small distinction on vaccinators whom I find
doing their work unusually well; an occasional present discriminatingly bestowed would rea-
lize its value a thousandfold in creating a spirit of emulation among the vaccinators, who are
as a class, miserably paid, and the youngest of whom has nothing much higher to
aspire to, or hope for, than what he already has, and that is little enough.
But
to finish my tour, I have examined the work of fifteen vaccinators of the Government
Establishment, three of the Local Establishment, and four medical subordinates in charge of
Dispensaries. I travelled 1,666 miles between encampments, and a good deal around them,
which does not appear in the monthly employment Reports; and I saw 8,552 vaccinated
children in 404 villages.
The total number vaccinated last year in the provinces, including Kyrepoor State, is
63,231, a greater number than has ever been vaccinated in any one year before. I think about
this number may be annually vaccinated for a few years more, but doubt if it can be
maintained for a series of years, because, I am of opinion that the annual births of the
province are probably not much over 65,000, calculating the population at about 2,000,000,
but if it be actually as I recently saw stated 3,000,000, then there is no reason to fear but
that the present number of vaccinators, by working hard could maintain this number, for the
annual births in a population of 3,000,000 must be about 1,00,000, which leaves a large
margin above what has been vaccinated.