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where vaccination had been carried on two or three years previously, and he appropriates the
names of children previously successfully vaccinated. When the Native official went to the
place it would turn out that the children were vaccinated, but it is not likely that he would
take such trouble as to discover those who had been vaccinated by the vaccinator whose work
he might be testing, and those who had been vaccinated years before by another vaccinator,
hence this method is also open to objection. The third method is the only one which I con-
sider offers a certain test both of the truth of the Register and of the character of the work
performed ; I have therefore adopted that course alone. This method is very simple and only
requires a great deal of patient labor, but the result amply repays the trouble, for it demon-
strates the actual state of the work performed by the vaccinator whose work is under
examination, and gives great opportunity for the Superintendent obtaining correct information
regarding the conduct of the vaccinators in their intercourse with the people, and this latter
point requires some attention. When I first began inspecting, I was content with merely seeing
as many children as were collected, and drawing a very general conclusion, because I seldom
ever saw as many children as had been reported, hence I determined to abandon such a loose
method of testing the reports, and adopted the following plan. At every village where I go
to inspect work, I generally first call over the names of the reported children either to the
pattell, zemindar, mookhee, or some person who was present at the time the children were
vaccinated ; while the roll is being called over the children are collecting. I make a
mark against the names of children of whom they deny the existence; second, when the
children are assembled the names are again called over, and I see each child's arm as his or
her name is called, and the result, successful or otherwise, is noted, or if they have not been
vaccinated that fact is noted; in short, whatever the result may be, it is marked down in the
Nominal Roll.
With reference to Circular No. 2037 of 1863, dated 8th September 1863, of Principal
Inspector-General Medical Department, calling for a notice of" any striking facts regarding
the protective power or success of vaccination, in order that it may be widely made known
by being published in the vernacular of each District, &c." I cannot say that any special
case has come to my notice during the past year, but I can state, that after having travelled
over the greater part of Sind, and after having personally examined thousands of children and
hundreds of villages, that a man only requires to travel from the one end of Sind to the
other with his eyes open to read in the faces of the rising generation what the benefits of
vaccination are to this Province. Here almost every adult is marked with small-pox, and a
great portion of the population below ten years old are vaccinated and have escaped small-
pox; it is true a great many below ten years old are marked, but few marked were vaccinated,
no doubt some who were vaccinated are also marked by small-pox. After many inquiries, and
no little pains taken to find out, I can say that I have never heard of a single successfully
vaccinated child having died of small-pox ; I know that a few unsuccessfully vaccinated chil-
dren have died of small-pox. What the deaths from small-pox must have been among a popu-
lation, whose every adult's face is marked, may be imagined. I will keep the object of the
Circular in view, and if any thing worthy of being reported occurs, I will report it.