Annual Report of the Superintendent Vaccination Punjab, for the
year 1869.
FROM
ISAAC NEWTON, ESQUIRE, M. D.,
SUPERINTENDENT VACCINATION, PUNJAB,
To
A. M. GARDEN, ESQUIRE, M. D.,
SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL OF VACCINATION, PUNJAB.
SIR,
I have the honor to submit a Report on the Vaccine operations carried on under my
superintendence during the past year.
2. Goojranwalla District.—During- the months of January and February I was working
with Dr. Garden, the Superintendent General, in the Goojranwalla district, marching through
the Hafizabad Tehseel, making a tour through the villages of Sakee, Pindee-Buttain, Gujyanah,
Choohurkhana, Beeki Jundiala, and Shekopoora, coming round into the Goojranwalla Tehseel
by Kurial, Nowshera and Kamoke, inspecting the work done by the Native Superintendents
and vaccinating the children of the neighbouring villages.
3. Goordaspoor District.—In March I proceed to the Goordaspoor District. During nearly
the whole of this month the weather was very inclement, raining very heavily almost without
intermission, so that it was impossible to march about much.
About the 20th of the month I found the vesicles were beginning to deteriorate,—pass-
ing too rapidly through their different stages,—so, having finished that portion of the Tehseel in
which the Native Superintendents were then working, I thought it advisable to stop operations
in the plains, and proceeded towards the hills.
4. Inspection in Kangra District.—By the end of March I arrived at Dhurmsala, and
inspected Native Superintendent Kundun Lall's work in the Kangra district. I found the
vaccine vesicles good; the Native Superintendent complained of difficulty in getting the people
to submit to be vaccinated, but work proceeded all through the hot weather tolerably satis-
factorily.
5. Arrival in Kulú.—I then proceeded through the Mundi Territory, and over the
Bujoura pass into Kulú, having previously sent on Native Superintendent Gopal Ram and his
vaccinators to introduce the vaccine disease, and on my arrival at Sultanpoor, I found it fairly
started.
6. Vaccine vesicles poor owing to excessive heat.—I found Sultanpoor and the lower part
of the valley extremely hot, although early in April, and in consequence the vesicles were small,
and a less proportion were successful.
7. Dohí.—Having vaccinated in all the villages in this neighbourhood, I proceeded
further up the valley to Dohí, an elevation of 4,700 feet above the sea level, here I at once
observed a change for the better in the vaccine vesicles.
8. Nuggur.—Having vaccinated all the children in this part, and inspected the work, I
moved on to Nuggur, 3 miles further up the valley, repeating the same mode of operations.
Here the elevation is 5,600 feet, and the temperature very pleasant (in May ), and
in consequence the vaccine vesicles become perfect in character.
9. Hooping Cough epidemic.—Here I found out hooping cough was prevalent in this
part of the valley. A child having died three days after it was vaccinated, which of course was
attributed to the vaccination, and I had a little difficulty in overcoming the fears of the people,
but at last I succeeded, and all went on satisfactorily. I heard of no more deaths after the
vaccination, although the whole way up the valley it was prevailing in almost every village.