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lators, I had no more difficulty; on the contrary the head men
received me cordially and took to vaccination readily and gladly,
and I won their hearts, by giving them the advantage of European
medical aid, and in one special case, the head man of the village
was brought to my tent on a charpoy supposed to be dying with low
Remittent Fever, and before I left the village, he was able to walk
from his house up a steep hill to see me.
Inoculators
near
Abbottabad.
12. The Deputy Commissioner, Captain Ommanney, who has
discountenanced inoculation in his district as much as possible,
called the inoculators who resided near to Abbottabad, to see me,
and talked to them on the advantages of vaccination over inocula-
tion and tried to persuade them to practise the former, but I fear
it is hopeless.
Proximity of a vil-
lage in Hazara to the
Cashmere territory.
13. In one village near the Jhelum, as it issues from the
Cashmere territory, small pox appeared to have been more preva-
lent, much more so than in the other villages visited, nearly all
had had the disease. I could not account for this, except perhaps the
close proximity to Cashmere, where inoculation is generally prac-
tised, may have something to do with this.
Vaccination in vil-
lages along the new
road from Abbotta-
bad to Murree.
14. During the month of June vaccination was carried on,
in the villages along the new road from Abbottabad to Murree,
arriving at the latter place as the rainy season set in.
During the rains
vaccination in vil-
lages near Murree.
15. During July, August and September vaccine operations
were carried on in the villages in the neighbourhood of Murree.
The villagers in these parts appeared to be quite alive to the
beneficial effects of vaccination, they brought their children wil-
lingly, and on more than one occasion the headman of the village
said to me spontaneously, that since they had had their children
vaccinated, there had been no more small pox in their villages.
Native Superintend-
ent Jai Singh.
The Native Superintendent Jai Singh has worked long in this
district and I saw many signs during the time I was in the Murree
hills, that he was a general favorite and had gained an influence
amongst the people.
Lawrence Memorial
Asylum.
16. On the 13th July and on several other occasions I visited
the Lawrence Memorial Asylum, there were at this time 67 boys
and 57 girls: these I examined carefully to ascertain to what ex-
tent they were protected from an attack of small pox. The result
as shewn below is anything but satisfactory, and if this may be
taken, as the usual state of things in European Regiments I think it
is absolutely necessary that some steps should be taken for the
better protection of European children in this country.
Number and charac-
ter of vaccine cicat-
rices on the children.
Out of 123 children examined only 28 had more than two scars
or cicatrices, and of these 16 were very poor, or being of very
doubtful protection, 19 had no marks whatever of ever having been
successfully vaccinated; but of these six were marked with small pox
scars.
The above will be better seen from the annexed table—
Number of children having no vaccine cicatrix
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Total, ...
19
31
45
13
12
3
123
of these
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6
18
17
8
5
3
57
are marked with Small Pox.
were very poor
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5
12
3
3
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23
fair
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8
16
2
4
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30
good.
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