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Age.
6 The number of children vaccinated under one year is 5,774, This is smaller than
is desirable, but many of the Natives have a prejudice
to allow their children to be vaccinated when very young.
Re-vaccination.
7. 348 re-vaccinations were performed; all that can be
said of this is, that it is holding its ground fairly.
Lymph, Vesicles, Cicatrices.
8. The lymph in use is of very fair quality. In November 1872 four tubes of
English lymph were received from the Superintendent
General of Vaccination : two of them were given to Dámodar
Dayáshankar, the Chotá Udaipur vaccinator, and he vaccinated five children with them, and
all the children had good vesicles, and from these he continued his work. The other two
tubes were given to Hirálál Vishwanáth, one of the Rájpiplá vaccinators, but they failed.
The vesicles which r have seen were on the whole very good, and the cicatrices very fairly
marked.
Small-pox.
9. Several sporadic cases of small-pox were reported to me during the year, but the
disease did not assume any serious extent, and soon died
out. In Bálásinur I was informed that several deaths
took place from small-pox, but on inquiry I could not find any reliable proof, as no record
was kept of the deaths, and all I could ascertain, from verbal inquiry, was that several
children died from it, and these had been vaccinated. From the description I have
received of some of the cases of supposed small-pox I conclude they were some other
eruption.
Inoculation.
10. Inoculation is not practised in any part of the
Circle as far as I am aware.
Husband's Tubes.
11. These are only used for transmitting lymph to a distance, and the importance
of arm to arm vaccination is impressed fully on the
vaccinators, and from the small number of tubes used,
there is no doubt it is carefully attended to.
Assistant Superintendent.
12. The Assistant Superintendent has worked well during the year. But it must
always be borne in mind that he was formerly a vaccinator,
and perhaps might be a little too lenient with the vacci-
nators.
Vaccinators.
13. The vaccinators during the year worked well—some of them exceptionally well.
Hirálál Vishwánáth, one of the Rájpíplá vaccinators, has
given me the greatest satisfaction. One vaccinator was
dismissed for neglect of duty. Some of them have a tendency to work only close to their
head-quarters, and not visiting the villages on the outlying portion of their district. I
have introduced two columns into the weekly reports, showing the distance travel-
led daily and the number of " kos" distant from head-quarters ; also in the monthly re-
turn two spaces for inserting the name of the camp from which it is depatched, and the
distance in " kos" from the nearest English post-office. By these means I have establish-
ed a check on the movements of the vaccinators. A good map of the districts would be
of great assistance in enabling me to trace the vaccinators' movements.
Dispensaries.
14. There are two dispensaries : one in Godhrá, where the late Sub-Assistant Sur-
geon Saruplál Bálakrám, who took great interest in the
progress of vaccination, succeeded in overcoming, to a
great extent, the prejudices of some of the Natives, and vaccinated a large number of chil-
dren. The other dispensary is in Báriá, under Native management, and vaccination is
carried on there fairly.