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villages visited was 360, containing in the aggregate about 18,370
houses; and the proportion of vaccinations to' houses averaged 42
per cent.
17. KAHUTA.—The people of this tahsíl, like those of Gújar
Khán, offered no resistance to vaccination, and the work was rapidly
carried on with uninterrupted success. The tahsíldar, Ganpat Rai,
gave every assistance, and the rapidity with which vaccination was
carried on is chiefly due to the admirable arrangements he made. In
this district several cases of inoculation from small-pox were met
with, but the inoculator remained concealed during my visit, and
no reliable information regarding him could be obtained. Fortunately
the number of inoculations seemed to be limited, and the disease, by
the timely use of vaccination, was prevented from spreading.
The whole of the villages situated in the plains and low hills
( an area comprising about two-thirds of the tahsíl) was gone over,
those on higher hills being reserved for the warmer months.
Number vaccinated in
the Kahúta tahsíl.
The number of villages visited was 190, containing in the aggre-
gate 8,469 houses; the total number of vaccinations was 4,274, of
which 1,754 were infants, and 2,520 were persons above one year old;
of the total number vaccinated, excluding those doubtful and un-
known, 98.3 per cent. were successful. The proportion of vaccinations
to houses was the highest yet obtained, being 50 per cent.
18. RAWALPINDI.—As in the two last mentioned tahsíls, the
spread of vaccination in Ráwalpindi was attended with great success.
Both in the city and the villages an epidemic of small-pox had been
prevalent during the greater portion of the cold weather, and although
few cases of the disease were seen, evidences of its previous existence
were not unfrequently met with. On account of the large numbers
that had been attacked, a notable decrease in the number of vaccina-
tions was the result.
Inspection of Municipal
vaccination in the
town of Rawalpindi.
The work of the local native superintendent, who had for some
short time been carrying on operations in this tahsíl, was inspected
about the middle of March, and found to be of fair quality. About
the same time I also inspected the work of the municipal vaccinators
employed in the city, and found the quality of the lymph perfect in cha-
racter, much superior to the average type of dispensary vaccination,
but the vesicles were in amount insufficient to infect the system so
thoroughly as to confer the full protection against small-pox the
operation is capable of securing; many cases had only been vaccinated
in one place, and the greatest number of vesicles in any case was
three. As their operations were on a limited scale, being confined
chiefly to infants, whose births had lately been registered, arrangements
were made with the tahsíldar and the members of the Municipal.
Committee to make a systematic vaccination of the whole city, so as
to include as many as possible of those left untouched by the muni-
cipal vaccinators. This was done, and in a few hours 297 vaccinations,
comprising the greater portion of the unprotected population, were
performed.
Number vaccinated in
the Ráwalpindi tahsíl.
This tahsíl ( not including the city) contains a population of
1,46,711, and the number of vaccinations performed in 343 villages,
comprising in the aggregate 18,953 houses, was 5,623, of which 97*9
per cent. were successful. The proportion of vaccinations to houses
averaged 29.7 per cent., a decrease of about 20 per cent. from that
obtained in Kahúta. This falling off however is not due to opposi-
tion met with, but, as previously explained, to the fact that a com-
paratively large number had already been protected by small-pox.
There were 110 vaccinations performed in cantonments, of which
89 were known to be successful.
19. HARIPUR, HAZARA.—On the 21st March I passed on to
Haripúr, where the greater portion of the staff had preceded me. This
tahsíl has never been visited by the establishment, and the popula-
tion being ignorant of the nature of vaccination, was at first much