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From the above table it appears that of those whom the vaccinators saw after
vaccination there were 4.99 unsuccessful, of the 7,919 vaccinated children whom I
inspected 98.38 percent were successfully vaccinated. It is only reasonable to
suppose that a large number of the 4,365 doubtful cases were also successfully
vaccinated, although the fact is not known, because the great majority of them were
not seen by the vaccinators after the operations. I consider the vaccinators reports,
in regard to the result of those vaccinated, as correct as they can be practically;
there must always be a small amount of error in the vaccinators reports showing
rather more unsuccessful than really exists, because the result of re-vaccinations is often
unknown at the time the vaccinators send in their monthly reports, hence the per-
centage of success has always been greater in my inspection table than in the annual
report.
12. The lymph every where has been good. In one instance only did I see bad
lymph, and that was in Shahbunder districts, in the hottest time of the year, but
even there it was only one day's lymph, the next day's lymph was good. I received
a few tubes containing lymph from, I think the local Superintendent of Vaccination,
Bombay Circle, I am not sure though, beceause I could not read the frank and there
was no letter with it. Hassah Mull used it, and I afterwards saw the vesicles, they
were very good indeed. In December I received one tube containing lymph from
the Principal Inspector General Medical Department, which had come from England
and also at the same time a few ivory points charged with dry lymph. I used both
the fluid lymph in the tube and the dry lymph on the ivory points myself on young
children, who had never had any kind of eruptive disease, so that there could be no
doubt about their being unprotected, and yet the lymph was quite inert.
13. From the month of January to July of 1866 the existence of small-pox
was reported from several talookas, generally the disease seems to have been in a
mild form, and subsequent enquiries have shown that in some instances it was only
chicken-pox, measles, or both. These two infantile diseases were very prevalent in
several widely separated parts of Sind during the first half of the past year. It
would be very interesting to know how many were attacked and died of small-pox,
and of these how many had been vaccinated, but such information cannot be obtained
By the commendable industry of Hassah Mull, 1 st Assistant Superintendent of Vaccina-
tion, I am in a position to give the particulars of an outbreak of small-pox in the
village of Jadoo Khan Lagari in the tappidarate of Alliyar-ka-Tanda. It appears
that Chanderam, local vaccinator in the talooka of Alliyar-ka-Tanda, wanted to vacci-
nate all the unprotected children in the village of Jadoo Khan Lagari in the month
of August last ; he did vaccinate a number of Mussulmans, but the Hindoos obstinately
and persistently refused to have their children operated on. Small-pox attacked
nineteen unprotected Hindoo children in November, and of these five died, one became
blind of one eye, and another totally blind ; this gives the frightful percentage of 25.8
deaths to attacks, and this in a village surrounded by a cordon of vaccinated
villages. One stands aghast to contemplate what the awful loss of life would be in