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having been made to vaccinate not merely as many as possible " under 1 year "
but all above 1 year up to 15 years of age that were not, on inspection, found to
be protected. Thus many who had been unsuccessfully or badly vaccinated be-
fore, were submitted to the operation again ; the object being to have the whole
population of the Province protected, so that vaccination might, in future, be
confined chiefly to children
" under 1 year. "
Though much has been done in
this direction, there is still a good deal left, which I trust may be accomplished
in the current year.
2. In the absence of accurate registration of births, it is impossible to say what
number of children should be vaccinated annually. But taking the English birth-
rate as a guide, there should be over 80,000 children born annually in Sindh and
making an allowance for deaths in infancy, there would remain 70, 000 to 75,000
to be vaccinated.
Vaccination in Khairpur
territory
3. The increase in the native state is apparently 2,390 ; but really should be
4,331, as the vaccinator's returns for the previous year
were false in toto.
Of the correctness of the past year's
returns I am satisfied, as I examined his work in No-
vember last and received a satisfactory report from the assistant superintendent
after his inspection at the end of the official year.
Finding the children in his
territory unprotected, H. H. Mir Alimurad appointed a second vaccinator, and I am
glad to say they are both now working well. There is a large amount of work to
be done too ; for assuming that vaccination was not practised much for the pre-
vious ten years (which I believe is not far from the truth)there must be still some
30,000 unprotected, if they have not been protected by small-pox. This vaccina-
tor's returns were false, because his work had never been inspected, and this,
because he was not a Government servant ; and I felt I had no right to enter
foreign territory without special reason and permission ; that, intrusion on my part
would be equally distasteful to His Highness and to Government.
Some such
feeling, I presume, prevented my predecessors from interfering. However, when
I suspected the returns were false,I asked permission through the Political Agent,
Colonel Dunsterville, to examine the vaccinator's work, and every facility and
assistance were immediately given me. I now receive the returns on the condi-
tion that I may at any time—either myself or through an assistant—enter II.
H.'s territory and inspect the work of the vaccinators.
Average Vacinations per Va¬
cinator.
4. The average number vaccinated by each vaccinator in the whole of Sindh
is decidedly a high one, viz.. 2,146. The higest num-
ber that appears in Statement A No. I. is 4,920, but
that is the work of more than one man.
In June last
small-pox broke out in Lárkháná, when Mr. Assistant. Superintendent Hásá .Mal not
only carried on vaccination himself, but called in the aid of two other vaccinators,
hence the large number of persons vaccinated in Lárkáná. The next highest is
3,706 by 2nd grade vaccinator Nurmohomed, at Cháchrá, in the Thar and Parkar
district; in this number are included the 954 Jodhpuris who asked to he vecinated.
After this comes Sarupsing, 1st grade vaccinator Shikarpur zilha, with 3,652; this
is in a measure due to Mr. Hásá Mal's assistance in stamping-out small-pox in the
táluká of Saidpur. The lowest number is 223, in the Karáchi taluka and represents
two months' work. The next is 917 in the Shikárpur táluká and represents 7
months' work. After this comes the total of 948 for Rámchand, 2nd grade vac-
cinator of the Karáchi zilhá at Mirpur Batorá ; the smallness is due to Ranichand's
idleness and absence from his táluká. He has since been dismissed. The majo-
rity of differences in the average ranging between 1,000 and 3,000 are explicable
by differences in population, &c.
Sex.
5. Of the 99,644 persons primarily vaccinated, 56,903 were males and
42,741 females; a ratio of 57 males to 43 females.
The proportion of males to females is a little greater
than it was in the previous year.