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" fatal. There are also many cases of small-pox after vaccination,
" but, as a rule, of a very mild type." Dr. Dorabji Hormasji
reports :—" I have not heard or seen any instances of small-pox
" either after successful vaccination or previous small-pox." I
have not heard of any in the Central circle. Dr. Anantá Chan¬
drobá in his report says :—
" Owing to my official position, and coming in constant
" contact with hundreds of families, I have opportunities of
" observation on the subject such as rarely fall to the lot
" of any single professional individual; and, though I had small¬
" pox all about me, with hundreds of children, vaccinated by my¬
" self, freely mingling with the attacked, I only met with 10
" cases of small-pox supposed to be after previous successful
" vaccination. Of these 10, 2 were cases of distinct genuine
" small-pox, but of the most discreet kind. One was seen in a
" Parsi lady 18 years old. Her father stated that she was suc¬
" cessfully vaccinated when an infant. I could not, however, see
" any marks of vaccination. She ultimately did well. The other
" case was in a Hindu lady, 16 years old. Here, too, there were
" no distinct marks of vaccination; her brother, aged about 24
" years, who was also attacked at the same time with her, showed
" no marks either, and still he had the disease in the varioloid
" form. One case was seen in a child 5 years old whose father
" is an acquaintance of mine. I had successfully vaccinated
" the child 4 years ago with animal vaccine lymph. There
" were beautiful marks of vaccination on the arms, and the
"present attack of small-pox was of the mildest varioloid kind.
" This person had two other children, one 3 years old and
" the other 6 months. The 6-months' old child was vacci¬
" nated, and the operation was successful; and it was whilst
" this case was progressing that the 5-years' old child became
" attacked with small-pox, the eruption being preceded by distinct
" fever of 3 days' duration. The 3rd child, 3 years old, was also
" successfully vaccinated when a baby; but, seeing the other
" child suffer from an attack of small-pox, I proposed, as a precau¬
" tionary measure, to have the child re-vaccinated. Thoroughly
" orthodox in sentiments, and swayed by the women of the family,
" the father would not submit the child to the operation so long as
" the small-pox disease was in the house. The attack passed away
" in due time ; and, after taking the child to the ' Shitala Devi',
" the father got the 3rd child re-vaccinated. My remark on
" the occasion, however, was that the child having passed safely
" through the fiery ordeal of constant contact with the affected child,
" there was no necessity now for the operation. The child was,
" however, re-vaccinated ; but the operation failed. The other
" cases were of the varioloid form, and were seen in aged persons.
" In none was there a fatal termination. During the course of
"the past epidemic many cases, indeed, were met with of
" small-pox attacking persons whilst vaccinia was progressing
" in their system ; but this undoubtedly was owing to the persons
" having been previously infected, and the vaccination was had
" recourse to when too late. It was in this way that very many
" were attacked, and many valuable lives were lost. That our vac-