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16. The Musalmáns as a rule accept vaccination most readily, but in the larger towns
the Hindus predominate, or at least in much larger proportion than in the district; hence the
reason that officers in charge of dispensaries have greater difficulties to contend with than
the táluká, vaccinators.
Goádar.
17. This is the first year that we have received returns from Goádar. The population
is given at 6,000, chiefly Musalmán. There were 326 per-
sons vaccinated, of whom 73 were under and 232 above one
year of age ; 186 males and 139 females ; 2 Christians, 62 Hindús, and 261 Musalmáns; 253
were successfully vaccinated, 52 unsuccessful, and in 20 the result was not known. The total
cost has been Rs. 63-12-0 out of a sanctioned allowance of Rs. 150, and the cost of each suc-
cessful case 4 annas.
18. It has been found very difficult to establish vaccination at Goádar. Repeated
trials with tube lymph failed. A vaccinifer was taken from Karáchí in April 1872, and
vaccination was established, but unfortunately in the month of May the lymph waslost. Repeat-
ed attempts with tube lymph failed till the month of January, when a few vesicles were pro-
duced and vaccination again established. Mr. Menezes, Assistant Apothecary, attributes this
difficulty in establishing vaccination to the " constitutional inaptitude of the Goádar people,
who are so cachectic and wasted that inactive lymph acts on them with great difficulty."
Even it appears that small-pox contagion is not easily taken by the natives, and when taken,
it is of the mildest form. There were fifteen cases of small-pox—all variola discreta, but no
deaths." He has also " often observed that in emaciated children the vesicles did not appear
on the 5th day as usual, but on the 9th or 10th day after the operation."
Quality of Lymph.
19. My predecessor Dr. Keith in his report on vaccination for eight months from April to
November 1872 says that he considers the " quality of lymph
to be all that can be desired. 2. That animal vaccination
was not carried out during the hot season. 3. That no inoculation was reported up to
November. 4. That reports of small-pox received from Mukhtiárkárs are unreliable. 5.
That the vaccinators do very good work. 6. That the returns he examined during the hot
season were all correct as far as he could make out, with the exception of those of the Vac-
cinator of Skáhábandar, who has since been dismissed. That he has seen no mark of syphilis
arising from vaccination. 7. That the system of Assistant Superintendents is very good
indeed." I can fully endorse Dr. Keith's opinion of the quality of the lymph.
English Lymph.
20. Two supplies were received : one was tried at Shikárpur under the supervision of
Dr. Keith, who did not consider it sufficiently good for pro-
pagation. The second supply was tried by Assistant Su-
perintendent Asumal, who reported favourably of it, and sent tubes filled with this lymph
to the vaccinators of the Haidarábád Collectorate.
Animal Vaccination.
21. Animal vaccination has been carried on since January by Mr. Leahy at Sakkhar. I
cannot do better than transcribe his report:—"Animal vac-
cination was resumed on the 20th January last, and has
since been in successful operation. It has now been practised for three successive years,
and the results show that there is no difficulty, so far as the operation itself is concerned, in
carrying it out in the cold season, but that as soon as the hot weather sets in, the pustules
produced by the inoculation of the calf are not so well formed, and a larger proportion of the
punctures fail altogether than in the cold season. The calves used belong to people in
the town, to whom they are returned immediately after the operation. On the sixth day
following they are brought back to the dispensary for inspection, and to supply lymph for
the inoculation of other calves, or for the vaccination of other children. At first two calves
were used each time, but finding that we always succeeded, and fearing that a supply of calves
of a suitable age would fail, I have latterly used one only. The Mahomedans offer no ob-