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who conducts the operations should be allowed to purchase an operating
table, and such appliances as may be necessary. This, and the feeding the
animals in stall will entail a slight expense, perhaps about Rs. 200. It will
be worth while to expend this amount or even more, should it be necessary
to do so, for a supply of vaccine virus, about the genuiness of which there
can be no doubt, will be available every year.
Vaccine from heifers received from
Paris and Brussels.
Success obtained from its use.
9.—About the 20th January, I received two supplies of vaccine taken
from heifers, one from Paris, the other from
Brussels. They consisted of 'tubes' charged
with lymph in a liquid state, and dry on ivory
points. Both supplies, and some of each kind (tubes and points) were used
successfully. They had been taken in Decem-
ber, and were first sent to England, from whence
they were forwarded to me, and were about six weeks old when I received
them. The lymph in tubes had been mixed with Glycerine, and packed in
a common quill. The tubes were all broken but the lymph, being still moist
I used, and successfully. The vesicles produced were of good character, but
I was unable to distinguish any difference between them, and those produced
by the vaccine in use up to that time, and which had been received from
England, and had been taken from children and not from heifers. Vaccina-
tions were being performed in such numbers in all the villages about, that I
found it impossible to keep the disease produced from the heifer lymph dis-
tinct from the other. I could have done so by delaying work, but this did
not appear advisable, as small-pox was epidemic in several places near, and
as there did not appear to be any difference in the diseases produced.
Proof that ' heifer' lymph will re-
tain its power for a considerable time.
Part of this heifer lymph was used by Dr. Newton, and part given to
Civil Surgeons. Success was obtained in nearly every instance. It has
been said that vaccine taken from heifers will
not retain its power beyond a very short time.
Some of this certainly did after having been
preserved for about two months, and notwithstanding the state in which
part of it arrived.
VACCINATION AT DISPENSARIES.
Vaccinations at Dispensaries.
Larger percentage of success than
usual.
10. Vaccinations at Dispensaries had been carried on as usual under
the supervision of Civil Surgeons. The per-
centage of successful cases is larger than it has
been before. From one, Mozuffergurh, the re-
turn for March has not been received. The vac-
cinators at Goordaspoor worked with those of the Punjab Vaccine Establish-
ment under Dr. Newton, and their returns are included with those of the
Establishment.
But few vaccinators were entertained by municipalities. The reason
given being "want of funds" wherewith to pay the men.
"Mundi" and "Chumba."
11.—The "Mundi" Raja continues to entertain one vaccinator, and I
believe one or two will be employed by the
"Chumba" Raja. No return has been received.
from Bhowalpoor.
"Motee Ram" of Umritsur.
Delhi Municipal Vaccinators.
Motee Ram, Hakim continues to vaccinate
in the city of Umritsur on his own account.
Vaccinators are regularly employed and paid by
the Municipal Committee of Delhi.