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Number vaccinated in
the Kasúr tahsíl.
account of the opposition met with last year, many villages had been
very imperfectly vaccinated. This was tried more as an experiment to
test the work of the previous year, and to find out in what condition
the population had been left with regard to protection against small-
pox. The result obtained with respect to numbers vaccinated was a
decided success ; it also demonstrated the fact, if proof were wanting, how
inadequately protected a place may be left immediately after having
been visited by a large staff of vaccinators; and also the possibility of a
severe and extensive epidemic of small-pox following close in their
wake. For example—in a zail in which the people had shown much
opposition last year, 1,035 operations were this year performed; and
again in a village where the previous year only 33 vaccinations were
inspected, as many as 306 children were this season operated on. The
total number of vaccinations in the three zails was 1,895, of which 97
per cent. were successful. The number of villages visited was 76, and
the proportion of vaccinations to houses averaged 25 per cent.
15. LAHORE CITY.—About the middle of February I inspected the
work of the vaccinators employed in the city of Lahore, and found very
little being done. The vaccinators were evidently lazy and negligent,
and not receiving any assistance, the number of vaccinations performed
was extremely small; less than what could have easily been done by
one man. With considerable difficulty they were able to show me
nine cases, chiefly Múhammadans of the lower class; and not being able,
as they informed me, to carry on arm-to-arm vaccination, the quality
of their lymph had somewhat deteriorated. On representing this un-
satisfactory state of matters to the Commissioner, Colonel Eliott, he made
arrangements with the native members of the Municipal Committee to
accompany the vaccinators, as a tentative measure, to see what could
be done, through several of the mohallas inhabited by the better class of
Hindus. The people were made clearly to understand that only those
who appreciated vaccination and wished to have their children vac-
cinated need come forward, and that nothing like compulsion was
intended. The trial was fairly made, but proved a complete failure,
only three or four submitting their children to be vaccinated. A special
meeting of the Municipal Committee was afterwards convened to con-
sider the question of entertaining two hakims, who, being well known
in the city, might, by their influence with the people, be instrumental
in introducing vaccination among them, and placing it on a more solid
foundation than it has hitherto obtained ; but as sufficient funds were
not available, and the end of the vaccinating season was at hand, the
matter was left to be decided next cold season.
Number vaccinated in
Gújar Khan tahsil.
16. GUJAR KHAN.—About the end of January, and shortly before
concluding operations in the tahsíls of Kasúr and Lahore, three vac-
cinators were despatched to the Ráwalpindi District, to make the
necessary arrangements there for having a sufficient supply of lymph
ready for the rest of the staff, who were to follow a week after. The
tahsíl of Gújar Khán had been selected as the field of operations to
start with, and on my arrival there on the 22nd February, I found
that such excellent progress had been made that only a few villages
remained unvaccinated. The natives of this district seemed really to
appreciate vaccination, and thought little of taking their children dis-
tances of three or four miles to be operated on; many of the lambardárs
not unfrequently informed me that ever since their villages had been
vaccinated three years ago by Dr. Garden, very little small-pox had
occurred; whereas formerly they had frequently been visited by severe
epidemics of that disease. On the arrival of the vaccinators, the tahsíldar,
Maindi Khán, made admirable arrangements for carrying on the work,
dividing the tahsíl in such a manner among them that the whole of the
villages were vaccinated in about two weeks. He deserves great credit
for the trouble he took, and the very efficient assistance he rendered.
This tahsíl contains a population of 1,26,126; and the total number of
vaccinations was 7,770, of which 7,271 were known to be successful. Of
the number vaccinated 3,527 were under one year of age; and the num-
ber of births during the year, calculated at one-thirtieth of the population,
being 4,204, gives the unusually high proportion of 83 per cent. of the
infant population that had undergone vaccination. The number of