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annum. But, as I have already said, we can hardly expect the Vaccinators to reach the
maximium: it is more probable that the general average will be something less than
2,000. From these calculations, it appears that twenty-seven regular working Vacci-
nators are sufficient for Sind with its present population. The Government establish-
ment consists of seventeen, and the local establishment of thirteen, making a total
of thirty Vaccinators : but two are employed superintending the others, in addition to
their ordinary duty, and are not, therefore, attached to any particular talookas; they
moreover, go over the whole of a collectorate. Excluding them, there is still one more
than the requisite twenty-seven ; but as the junior Vaccinator is nearly always only
a beginner, I cannot calculate on his having charge of a talooka. The joint establish-
ment then is, I think, as far as the number of Vaccinators is concerned, sufficient for
the province at present. But I am of opinion that a third Assistant Superintendent
would add to the efficiency of both establishments, as it would enable me to have one
Assistant for the Kurrachee Collectorate, including Kohistan, another for the Hydra-
bad Collectorate and the Thurr and Parkur Political Superintendency, and a third for
the Shikarpoor Collectorate and the Frontier of Upper Sind Political Super-
intendency.
The more I see of our system of vaccination the more am I convinced that Sir
George Clerk's idea, of employing Native Deputy Superintendents to assist the Euro-
pean Superintendents, was wise and correct; and the carrying of it into practice would,
I believe, bring the several vaccination establishments to a degree of efficiency never
yet reached even in the Bombay Presidency, where so much has been effected without
their assistance. It seems a waste of time to argue in favour of Native Assistant
Superintendents, for the thing stands self-evident, that no single unaided European
Officer can exercise a continuous watch over men scattered over fifty or sixty thousand
square miles. And here I may be permitted to say, in advocating the employment of
Native Assistant Superintendents, that Sir George Clerk's idea, although a wise one,
was marred, and ultimately rendered futile by employing Sub-Assistant Surgeons as
Deputy Superintendents. Native medical gentlemen are the last men whom I should
choose for Assistant Superintendents of Vaccination ; they would probably be fitter
for the place of Superintendents : anyhow Sir George Clerk's plan, of solely employing
Sub-Assistant Surgeons, signally and completely failed. Still this failure by no means
implies that a plan for employing other natives would also fail. Head Vaccinator
Hassah Mull has been three years, and Vaccinator Assoo Mull has been nearly
two years, my Assistant; and I am happy to say that I have found them useful
to a degree I had not even anticipated. I may be permitted then to say, that I think
Native Assistant Superintendents should be employed in all Circles of Vaccination,
and that good men, chosen from among the Vaccinators themselves, should be pro-
moted to Assistant Superintendentships ; this would open up careers for young men
entering the Vaccination Department, and would do more than anything else I know
of to stimulate Vaccinators to work well, to render honest returns, and to maintain
their integrity in all relations with the people among whom they work. In conclu-