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I consider he had done very good work under the eircumstances. He was in the
habit of vaccinating one day a week at the Hospital of the 2nd Regiment of Sind
Horse, all children voluntarily brought from the lines, in addition to carrying on
his own duties outside among the villages. In the same talooka the work of local
vaccinator Kisher Chand was examined in the Cutchee, 480 children were seen in
31 villages. I consider his work very well done, his records were true, neatly kept,
and his general behaviour was every thing I could desire. From Jacobabad district
I passed into Larkhana district, and in the talooka of Kumber examined 250 children in
19 villages, who had been vaccinated by General No. 247, Shankat Rai. His work
was pretty well done, his records true and lymph good. He was suffering from bad
health; he subsequently got six months' sick leave, during which he died. In the
Nusseerabad talooka the work of local vaccinator Jani Mull was examined and found
satisfactory. From the district of Larkhana I marched to Mehur, with the intention
of inspecting the work of General No. 230 Allah Buksh in the talooka of Mchur,
but found him dying in the Hospital there : he died a few hours after my arrival.
Thence passed on to Tigr talooka to inspect local vaccinator Hasso Mull's work, but
on examining his records, I saw that they were in a measure falsified, I bluntly accused
him of falsification and pointed out from his own weekly reports that his register could
not be correct. I believe his faults chiefly arose from laziness and carelessness ; I
dismissed him from the local establishment. He had only been employed in a talooka
by himself four months. From Mehur district I passed down into Sehwan district,
and in the talookas of Sehwan and Dadoo examined the work of local vaccinator
Rughu Mull, with which I was tolerably well satisfied ; his lymph was good but his
records contained some errors in the sexes and ages columns regarding which I
cautioned him ; they were of a very minor description and such as a little more care
could have prevented. I also examined some work in the talookas of General No.
77, Jettah Mull, and found it satisfactory.
In the month of April I received temporary charge of the duties of Civil Surgeon
at Kotree from Assistant Surgeon McConneli, and handed them over to Assistant
Surgeon Colvill in May ; during the month I did all I could to further vaccination
in the town and neighbourhood of Kotree.
In April and May I examined the work of General No. 148, Lalloo, in Doaba
talooka of Hydrabad collectorate and also in Kotree talooka. This vaccinator
carried on work on both sides of the river for a few months on account of my having
received a report of the existence of small-pox in and about Kotree, at a time when
the Municipal vaccinator had been dismissed by the Municipality, but on my arrival
in Kotree I only found measles and chicken-pox. I found Lalloo's work, as it
always has been, in every way highly satisfactory. Towards the end of May in the
Jurruck districts the work of local vaccinator Choteer Mull was examined ; it was not
so well done as it might have been ; this man's house is in the town of Tatta, and
he was in the habit of going too often to it to the neglect of his duty. He has since
been dismissed for losing his lymph and not exerting himself to obtain other lymph