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" also reported that inoculation had also been practised in the villages of Khuda Bux
" Gharro, Juro Wasan, Mitto Koso, Rawut Koso, Mussoo, Kashkeli, and Moobarak
" Koso. After seeing the inoculated children in these villages, Kowrah Mull request-
" ed the Mooktiakar to stop the inoculators from inoculating. On receiving Kowrah
" Mull's report, I directed the Head Vaccinator to proceed to Mahomed Khan's
" Tanda District to investigate into the affair thoroughly, and to report to the District
" Office as well as to me. He went to Mahomed Khan's Tanda District, and, after
" making full inquiries, reported that no less than seven men had been inoculating
" in that district; he further informed me that some vaccinated children had been inocu-
" lated with small-pox virus without any effect, and even some unvaccinated children
" did not take small-pox after being variolously inoculated. In the village of Phar-
" kara, the Patel told the Head Vaccinator that they preferred vaccination to inocula-
" tion, and that for six years they had no cases of small-pox until the inoculators were
" brought by Allahdad Nizamoni and Shukul Koso, when they were driven to inoculate
" for fear of their children catching the disease naturally from those who had been vac-
" cinated, and they have since written to me to get inoculation prohibited. The names
"of the inoculators are Kaki Mashakhpots, resident of Yusuf Mashakhpots ; Ibrahim,
" Tahir, Ahsan, and Yusuf, all of the same caste and village ; Bachel, already men-
" tioned and Mahomed Khan Lagari, resident of Lall Buksh Lagari. The seven
" inoculators inoculated children in the following villages : Gayandar Koso, Umeed Ali
" Thine, Adreez Hallapots, Abdoola Thejo, Lall Buksh Lagari, Kyro Dal, Wassee
" Wasan, Mitto Wasan, Meer Mahomed Nizamoni, Kyro Talpoor, Pharkara, Bachel
" Hallapot, Shukul Koso, and in some other villlages which the Head Vaccinator did
" not visit. On receiving Hassah Mull's reports, I sent the whole of the papers to the
" Deputy Collector of Mahomed Khan's Tanda, with a request that he would put a stop
" to inoculation (but previous to this the Mooktiakar, at Hassah Mull's request, called
" these inoculators before him and admonished them). He put a stop to the practice,
" and took the permission to carry arms away from Allahdad, Jagheerdar, for encourag-
" ing the practice of inoculation in his jagheer ; and he explained to the inoculators
" that Government could not permit of the dangerous practice of inoculation being con-
" tinued." I can add nothing to the foregoing, except to say that I can see no good
reason against making inoculation penal in Sind, seeing there are now plenty of Vac-
cinators to protect the people by vaccinations. The only real difference which I can
see between a death caused directly or indirectly by inoculation and one caused by an
assassin, is, in the former case, the absence of intention to kill. I believe the penal code
takes intention and malice into greater account than the actual result of an act. This,
no doubt, is the correct moral view, and is the general principle on which criminal codes
are formed ; but in the case of inoculation, the maintenance of this principle is so inex-
pedient, that the common sense of Europe has comdemned it, and, if I am not mistaken,
inoculation has been made penal in some other parts of India. I would only just
observe further, that it was in Mahomed Khan's Tanda District that a man, by name
Boodhoo, was convicted and punished for inoculating in 1866, but the conviction was