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At the commencement of the year, I was in Mehur District, where I examined the work
of General No. 230 Allah Buksh, in the Kukur Talooka. The operations had been carefully
performed, his records were true, his lymph was good and abundant. In the town of Mehur
I saw a few children who had been vaccinated by the late Mr. Apothecary Wright. From
Mehur I passed into Larkhana District, and in the Talookas of Larkhana and Soojawul examined
the work of General No. 247 Shankat Rai, and General No. 27 Luchmon ; the former was
then a new hand and had just completed his training under the latter; their work in all
respects was satisfactory. Thence passed through the Talooka of Nowshera Abro, examining
the work of General No. 114 Assoo Mull, who had done a very great number of operations,
and whose work I found highly satisfactory. In the town of Yassinji Ghuri alone I saw three
hundred children whom he had recently vaccinated. I have already mentioned the hearty
assistance which the Zemindar of that place gave this vaccinator. From the Shikarpoor and
Sukkur Districts I crossed the Indus and went up through Roree District, examining the work
of General No. 79 Suroop Sing, which I found highly satisfactory. In the town of Roree I saw a
few children with fresh lymph on the arms, the work of Sheikh Wullee, Hospital Assistant, in
charge of the Dispensary there ; this man has carried on vaccination very successfully during
the past three cold seasons. In the town of Gotekee an old inoculator came to me and asked
permission to get lymph from Suroop Sing whenever he might want it; he intended operating
among the hill tribes on the Jacobabad Frontier, where he had formerly been in the habit of
inoculating, I told him that he should have it very willingly, and further that, if he chose, I
would appoint him a vaccinator on the local establishment, but this offer he declined, because
he could not write, and could make more money working on his own account. From the Roree
District I again crossed the Indus and went into Jacobabad District, passing through it from
east to west. Along my route I made many inquiries regarding the feelings of the people
towards vaccination, and if one can believe in their answers, I think there cannot be any very
great difficulty in getting them to accept vaccination. In the town of Jacobabad I met Colonel
Green and made arrangements with him for commencing operations in the district. I appointed
a local vaccinator for the district, and since then he and Luchmon have been employed in that
new field. They have not been been able to do very much work, but they have broken
ground, and thereby established the fact that the difficulties are not insurmountable. I did
not wish at first to use any official influence with the people, but let these two vaccinators
work their own way to the good-will of the inhabitants. The Belooches of this district
are altogether a more independent race of men than the general inhabitants of other parts of
the province, and I thought this method to begin with would work better in the end, but now
that they have seen what vaccination is, and are taking to it, I think a Sindhi Circular, setting
forth the advantages of vaccination, would be useful, and would also be a guarantee to the
people that the Government wishes the children to be vaccinated.
I find that some
of the people have been asking the vaccinators for the Government order on the
subject of vaccination, and as the vaccinators have no such order they are suspicious.
A Sindhi Circular would remove this suspicion. I write this from personal know-
ledge. Turning south I again saw a few children operated on by Assoo Mull in
the Talooka of Nowshera Abro; and again some children in the Talooka of Rata
Dehra and Soojawul, who had been vaccinated by Shankat Rai and Luchmon. Passing
through Larkhana I examined some children in the Talooka of Tiger in the District of
Mehur, who had been vaccinated by Allah Buksh. At the end of March and beginning of
April I examined the work of General No. 77 Jettah Mull, in the Sehwan District, and found
his work well done, his records true and carefully kept.
It has taken me some trouble to get