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fully continuous this time. Out of 48 heifers inoculated, the operation failed only in
7, several of which were inoculated with preserved lymph, some received from Dr.
Blanc, and some from our own stock. Of these failures, two took place in December,
4 in January, and only one in February. The one inoculated on the second of that
month, whilst of the other 10 inoculated during the same month, and 13 in March, not
a single one failed. During the year, I have inoculated 115 heifers. Of these 27
were supplied by the Municipality, 25 of them being paid for from the Cowasjee Jehan¬
gier grant; 19 belonged to private individuals, two or three only of whom required any
remuneration to be paid to them for the use of their animals ; 39 were bought by
ourselves, either at Bandora or Coorla, and were afterwards sold by public auction ;
and 30 were supplied to us by a cattle merchant, who entered into a contract to supply
us with a heifer every sixth day, for 8 months, at a certain fixed price. The expenses
on account of animal vaccination, including all charges, amounted to Rs. 645-9-3 ; or
Rs. 5-9-9 for each animal. Stunned and stupified as it were by the repeated and.
unaccountable failures, I scarcely thought about the desirability of keeping a record
of our animal vaccine operations, which would be so extremely useful for future
reference. From the month of November, however, I began to keep an account of
the inoculations of the heifers, noting the date of operation, nature of the lymph used,
general health and state of the skin to be operated upon, progress of the operation,
and the result of the use of the lymph in the human subject. Simultaneously with
this I began to keep a separate register of persons vaccinated with animal lymph,
and to personally ascertain the progress and result of each vaccination, visiting the
vaccinated persons as often as possible for this purpose. My object in taking all this
trouble was to gather an amount of facts and gain personal experience which would
enable me to speak with some degree of confidence on the subject of animal vaccination,
as to how far it could be trusted in cases of emergency or at all. In doing this, how-
ever, I had not calculated the labour. The work was an up-hill one. Children were
vaccinated by dozens in all parts of the Island. Many through their fears of lymph
being taken, took care to try and keep out of my way. Notwithstanding these
drawbacks, however, I patiently persevered till the increased extent of the field of
operations, both as regards the number of vaccination and places, made it physically
impossible for me to watch personally the progress of every operation performed.
I, however, never allowed a single opportunity of witnessing the progress and
result of an operation to pass unavailed of. In this way, I must have during
the last 15 months personally observed and noted the results of several hundreds
of operations which I performed on the children of my friends, relatives,
acquaintances, patients and neighbours, who naturally came under my close and
attentive observation. But besides these, many European children, whose houses
could be easily found, on account of correct addresses, were also seen ; and also many
Parsee children. During the last month, not a few from amongst the general public
brought their children to me for inspection, though the number of those not per-
sonally seen by me was still considerable. The result of all this was that, in cases