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taken in conjunction with the great number of his vaccinations. He vaccinated
nearly 6,000 children last year in the Rohree districts. Proceeding towards the
frontier of Bahawulpoor State, I examined the work of local vaccinator Hazari Mull
in Oobaora talooka, as he had only recently been sent there, at the time of my visit
he had not done very much work. I saw 196 vaccinated children in 10 villages¬
His lymph was excellent, there was not a single unsuccessful case among the whole
of the children, nor a single error in his register. Having completed my inspection
in the Rohree districts, I crossed the river and entered the Upper Sind Frontier
district of Jacobabad, marched by Kushmore and along the old line of outposts, to
Meerpoor. Here I received in January, from the Principal Inspector General Me-
dical Department, five ivory points charged with vaccine virus, which had been sent
from England by the Secretary of State for India. I vaccinated two children with
them carefully and according to directions sent with them, but the lymph was
quite inert. At the same time I vaccinated two other children with tube lymph,
which I had by me, and this took well and produced good vesicles. On the day of vac-
cinating these children a number of people brought their children to my camp
to be also vaccinated, but I desired them to wait until the following week ; so that
they might be vaccinated from arm to arm. Nobody had ever before been vaccinated in
Meerpoor, and the fact of two being unsuccessful out of four, made the people very
shy of submitting their children when the lymph became ready; that is to say, eight
days after the four were vaccinated, whereas on the day of operating the whole of
the children in the place would have been freely offered. However, on explaining;
the whole circumstance to a few of the principal inhabitants, they understood the
matter, and removed the fears of the rest of the people, who then submitted all their
children. In this talooka (Sarhad) I examined over 300 children recently vaccinated
by General No. 114, Assoo Mull, in 9 villages, and of the same vaccinator's work,
561 children were examined in 9 villages of Shikarpoor talooka. I consider this
man's work very satisfactory indeed. After he had gone over Shikarpoor talooka
I ordered him to take his lymph across the Bigari Canal and work in Sarhad talooka
of Jacobabad district, not expecting that he would be able to do very much work,
but to my surprise I found him doing abundance and getting on pleasantly with
the inhabitants. He said he had to do a good deal of talking to explain the benefits
of vaccination, and that be was very much indebted to the Mookhtiarkar of
Sarhad for assisting him in explaining the advantages of vaccination to the
zemindars of the talooka. In the Jacobabad talooka I examined the work
of General No. 27 Luchmon ; 227 childern were seen in 19 villages, his returns
were quite correct, the vesicles were rather small, attributable to Luchmon using
glass lymph, because the people were very averse to carrying their children from their
own to other villages. I had instructed him to deal very gently with the inhabitants,
in order that nothing should stand in the way of their submitting their children to be
operated on. The population of this talooka is much thinner than that of Sarhad, hence
Luchmon had done fewer operations per mensem than Assoo Mull, but on the whole