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and small-pox ; they appeared to be highly interested, freely asked questions about
vaccination, and appeared quite ready to accept it, which they have since done.
21. Before my arrival in Jacobabad district, Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm
Green, Acting Political Superintendent of that frontier, had very kindly given a
purwana to Luchmon, and Mr. Bolton had given one to Kishen Chund. At the time
of writing my last Annual Report I was ignorant of these purwanas having been
granted, and as the people of Sarhad talooka had asked for Assoo Mull's authority
to vaccinate, I considered it advisable to recommend that a Sindhi Circular should
be issued to all Zemindars, Native officials and other influential persons, setting forth
all the advantages of vaccination. Mr. Mansfield, on receiving my recommendation,
was pleased to give instructions for such a Circular to be issued, and it was so, with,
I have reason to believe, satisfaction to the people and benefit to the vaccinators.
It is very pleasing to be able to say that nearly the whole of the Jacobabad district
has been once gone over in less than two years, after remaining all but untouched for
nearly twenty years, and that not a single complaint has been made against the
vaccinators by any one.
22, With only two exceptions, the conduct of the vaccinators has been very
good, and they have carried on their duties in a creditable manner. The two
exceptions were Wuttun Mull and Chellah Ram, regarding whom I received from
the Mookhtiarkar of Methe a complaint of their taking children with vesicles on
their arms for the purpose of vaccinating from them from their own to other villages
in an uncourteous and rude manner. I requested Major Tyrwhitt to do me the
favour of investigating into the circumstances; he very kindly did so, and informed
me that those two vaccinators had been rather zealous and inconsiderate, but he
did not consider them deserving of dismissal from the service. Major Tyrwhitt
subsequently did me the favour to inform me that he had looked at some of Chellah
Ram's work in the Nuggur Parkur talooka and that be considered it well done.
Under these favorable circumstances I merely cautioned those two men to be extremely
careful that their conduct be always courteous, that they pay parents fully for their
loss of time. I am very much indebted to Major Tyrwhitt for the active interest
he takes in the progress of vaccination in his Political Superintendency and for the
aid he is at all times so ready and willing to give me. The Head Vaccinator, Hassah
Mull, who is also 1st Assistant Superintendent in the local establishment, has done
remarkably good service throughout the year in superintending the work of the
vaccinators employed in Hydrabad collectorate and in the Thur and Parkur districts.
23. The practice of begging " Murad" still obtains with the majority of my
men, though I have reason to think that it is now done in a much more delicate
way than it was before I took notice of it, and several of the vaccinators affirm that
they have completely abandoned the practice. I am very happy to say that during
the past year no complaint on this score reached me. Mr. Mansfield, in his
memorandum No. 35, dated 21st April 1866, submitting the Annual Report of
Vaccination in Sind for 1865, for the information of Government, was pleased to