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carry out animal lymph vaccination wherever practicable, eight of the Hindu
Vaccinators of the Special Staff declined to employ animal lymph. It was
pointed out to them that the making use of buffalo lymph was not contrary to
their religious tenets, and that as a matter of fact many Hindu Vaccinators of
the District Staff were using buffalo lymph. They were also informed that, if
they did not carry on vaccination work with buffalo calf lymph in suitable cases,
their conduct would be brought to the notice of Government. They afterwards
agreed to use buffalo calf lymph, but much valuable time was lost.
Sixty-one thousand and seventeen of the operations done by the Special
Staff were cases of primary vaccination; of these, 59,092, or 96.85 per cent.,
were successful. They performed 10,121 re-vaccinations, of which 4,245, or
41.94 per cent., were successful. The Special Staff performed 7,992 vaccina-
tions with animal lymph ; of these, 6,888 were done with buffalo and 1,104 with
calf lymph.
During the hot weather months the Special Staff belonging to the Eastern
Circle were employed on vaccination duty in the States of Mundi, Chamba,
Nálagarh, Basáhir, Jabal, Keonthal and the other small States in the neighbour-
hood of Simla. In the cold weather they were employed in the Native States
of Kalsia, Loháru, Pataudi and Dujána, in the Sonepat Tahsíl of the Delhi
District, in the Fázilka Tahsíl of the Ferozepore District, in the Zafarwál Tahsíl
of the Siálkot District and in Pesháwar. The men of the Western Circle did
vaccination work in the Murree Tahsíl of the Ráwalpindi District and in the
Hazára and Pesháwar Districts.
Doctor O'Neill inspected the vaccination work of Murree and its neigh-
bourhood, Chamba, Palampur, Mundi and Sukhet. Doctor Dyson inspected
the vaccination work done in the districts of Gurgáon, Rohtak, Hissár,
Ferozepore and Hazára, and in the towns of Kasúr, Gujrát and Jalálpur. In
his report he states that he has personally examined a large number of children
who have been vaccinated with animal lymph, and has found the scabs and
scars to be larger than those produced by human lymph. He states that though
he has made many enquiries he has not found that animal lymph vaccination is
attended with greater physical disturbance than vaccination with human lymph is.
Establishment of suitable
depôts for animal lymph.
28. The Punjab Government was requested in the Government of India's
letter No. 3—202, dated 29th June 1889, above quoted, to
arrange for the establishment of suitable depôts at con-
venient centres for the preparation of animal lymph. In reply, His Honor the
Lieutenant-Governor stated that the officers best qualified to pronounce an
opinion in the Punjab were in favor of extending the practice, which already
prevailed to a certain extent, of vaccination direct from the calf, preferably that
of the buffalo, and that he was of opinion that this system was more likely to
prove popular and successful than that of vaccination by means of stored animal
lymph. He added that he trusted the Government of India would not, under
the circumstances, object to the adoption of a scheme for establishing a small
depôt for the preparation and distribution of animal lymph at the commence-
ment of each vaccination season. In answer to this letter, the Government of
India stated that the question of establishing an imperial depôt at a hill station
for all India, or for the Bengal Presidency at all events, was under contempla-
tion, and that, pending a decision on this question, the establishment of a suitable
hill depôt for the Punjab should be postponed.
CANTONMENT VACCINATION.
Cantonment vaccination.
29. The work of vaccination in cantonments continues to be carried on
partly by the District Staff and partly by the Special
Cantonment Vaccinators.