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done. Passing through Meerpoor Buttora, I saw Mr. DeSouza, who is in charge of the
Dispensary there ; he was not Vaccinating on account of the great heat, and there being very
few unprotected children remaining in the town. I had a great deal of difficulty in making
that march, as the inundation had set in early, and the water was flowing deep and strong in
the canals ; many of the temporary bridges were either swept away or had not been put up.
At the end of the month I crossed over into the Jerruck District, and in July I there examin-
ed the records of General No. 185 Damoo Mull, but could not go to see his operations on
account of the roads being inundated between Tatta and Ghorebare, he had been at work for
some months in the latter place. I passed down the high road to Gharra, where I saw a few
children who had shortly before been vaccinated by local vaccinator Choteer Mull; I was anxious
to see what this new hand was doing, as he reported great difficulty in getting the inhabitants
of Gharra and neighbourhood to submit their children, and in fact could not keep his lymph
going; he lost it and was doing nothing. I got down about the middle of July, but it was
near the middle of August ere I got lymph re-established there, after that the head vacci-
nator Hassah Mull, had no difficulty in vaccinating every unprotected child in the town. I
had previously spoken to the Patel and Mookhee about vaccination, and they consented to
have every child vaccinated, but bargained that none of their vaccinated children should be
taken to other villages, to this I agreed, and the trouble was at an end. In the month of
September I charged a number of glass capillary tubes with good lymph; after hermetically
sealing them, I enclosed seven tubes in a quill, and having sealed up the open end of it with
wax, I sent it to a Dispensary; all the Dispensaries were thus supplied in time to commence
operations with the opening of the cold season. A good many of the tubes were broken
in the post, but from this source vaccination was this year begun in nearly all the
Dispensaries. In former years it was a very great trouble to the vaccinators to send children to
the Dispensaries, with fresh lymph on their arms, now with tubes there is no difficulty. If
tubes were of no other use than merely to supply the Dispensaries, they would still constitute
a great boon, but they have occasionally been made use of for carrying lymph long distances,
when a vaccinator was moving into a new talooka or returning to his talooka from leave. In
the month of October I commenced my cold season tour; between Gharra and Tatta, skirting
the hills I examined some work which local vaccinator Choteer Mull had done during the
preceding two months, I found it satisfactory, his lymph good and records true. In this
talooka towards the mouth of the Bagur I also examined some work of General No. 185
Damoo Mull, and it also was well done. Passing up through Jerruck I saw a few children
whom the Hospital Assistant there had vaccinated since receiving the capillary tubes. Thence
crossed the Indus and passed up through Hydrabad, and examined the work of General No. 148
Lalloo in the Talooka of Doaba, found it satisfactory in every way. Thence entered Halla District
and in the Talooka of Shahdadpoor, examined the work of General No. 165 Gunga Ram. He had
done a very great deal of work during the past year, and it was well done; his lymph was good,
his records true and neatly kept; but I am very sorry to say that I had to find fault with
him for begging murad from the parents of children whom he had vaccinated. Murad is a
kind of auspicious gift, which in former times was given to innoculators; it generally consists
of a few pice or a seer of grain, and is supposed to bring good luck to the child. I told this
man that on no account would I allow him to ask murad, that I could not prevent the people
giving it of their own free will, and that he might take a lakh if it were offered to him, but
that he must either give up begging for it or leave the establishment; he promised to give
up asking for it. At the beginning of December I examined some of the villages gone over
by General No. 108 Mehar Chand, in the Mora talooka, and was satisfied that his work was