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their talookas. About the close of last year I received a supply of animal lymph in
tubes from the local Superintendent of Vaccination in Bombay. From this lymph a
couple of children were vaccinated at Cambay. The lymph produced good pearly
vesicles. Some more children of Cambay were vaccinated, and I charged a few tubes
and took them with me to Borsud, where a retransmission was successfully done. A
supply in tubes taken from Borsud was introduced successfully at Towra in Broach
talooka, and from thence a supply was sent to Jamboosur. Out of the few children
vaccinated by myself direct from the heifer-lymph in Surat, I was able to see one
partially successful case and from this I filled one tube with difficulty. This tube,
charged on the 19th October 1870, remained with me till the 14th January, by which
time all the lymph in it had solidified. In using this tube at Deesa I was obliged to
break it into several pieces, which were moistened in a little glycerine, even then I could
extract very little lymph from it, and with this one child was vaccinated. On the 8th
day, two small but pearly vesicles were observed. I directed the vaccinator to allow these
vesicles to develop till the 9th or 10th day, and then to vaccinate one or two children.
He did so ; a second transmission of this lymph producing very good vesicles, and he
has been working with this lymph since the end of January. He is a vaccinator of
12 years' standing, and reports that the vesicles produced by this lymph are very large,
and that during all his service he has never seen such good results. He sent me a supply
of this lymph in tubes, which, after remaining with me for more than three weeks,
was used at Bayud in Morassa talooka with good results. It produced beautiful
vesicles and the lymph yielded was very clear and viscid. Every monsoon there is
deterioration of lymph to a certain extent, but, during the last one, the deterioration
was observed to be very great and general. In many talookas it continued from
August up to November, and in some quarters it had to be entirely given up. This
general deterioration of lymph every monsoon may be partly owing to the combined
influence of heat and rain, but I believe it to be mostly due to the entire want of care
on the part of the parents. The mass of the village populations being chiefly agricul-
tural, the monsoon is the busiest season for them, and every member of a family
capable of any work goes to the fields, and mothers have of necessity to take their
children with them; add to this the nuisance of the flies, which is a sort of plague
in Gujarat. I have myself noticed that, in the twinkling of an eye, a fly can suck up
the lymph from a well-charged lancet. After vaccination the flies regularly stick
to the punctures and dry them at once, and when vesicles form on the arms the irrita-
tion produced by the flies causes the infants naturally to scratch the arms, and thus
vesicles are opened and destroyed. During the monsoon, in consequence of this fly
nuisance, to carry out vaccination is a work of the greatest difficulty : it entails the
utmost care, and this very few of our vaccinators take. The result is that more bad
work is done during these few months than during the rest of the year. During the
coming monsoon I shall direct the vaccinators only to vaccinate the children of trades-
men and such other people of villages as are not likely to expose their children to rain
and heat, and to do only enough of work each week to keep up their lymph,