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Compared with the Batala Pergun-
nah
8.—If we compare these results with those of the Batala Pergunnah, as
shewn in my last report, these latter will appear
still more deplorable. The total population of
children under twelve years of age in the Bata-
la Pergunnah being 92,545, and the total of successful vaccinations 8,779,
and following the same calculations as above, namely, that one-half are
already protected, by natural small-pox, we have one successful vaccination
for every 5.27 unprotected children, and 37,493 still remain unprotected, or in
round numbers about 4,000 children more than in Shukergurh Pergunnah.
Proportion of vaccinations to num-
ber of houses of Principal towns.
9.—The principal towns in this Pergunnah are, Sookhochuk, said to
have 800 houses, in which 175 vaccinations
were performed ; Kunjroor 600 houses, and 172
vaccinations; Nyna Kote 600, and only 35 vaccinations ; here I had consi-
derable difficulty, the Municipal Committee gave me no assistance, and after
spending some time in vainly trying to persuade them, I had to leave them.
Shukergurh 500 houses and 120 vaccinations.
According to the Census, the average number of children to each house
is 1.56,
An instance shewing a good im-
pression was made on the people.
10.—One day I received a visit from a zaildar from the southern part
of the Pergunnah, sometime after I had left
that part, he told me of a woman, who had re-
turned to her village with her child, and finding the children had all been
vaccinated, was very anxious to have hers also protected, he told her where
the work was then going on, when she hired a pony and took her child
some 12 or 14 miles distance and had it vaccinated. If this be true, and I
have no reason to doubt it, it shews that a good impression has been made
on the people.
People from the Jummoo territory
vaccinated.
11.—In the northern parts of this Pergunnah near the Sealkote dis-
trict, the people came in from the neighbouring
villages of the Jummoo territory to be vaccina-
ted. This is a very favourable sign, when it is
considered that "inoculation" is practised to a large extent in those hills,
and this practice is a constant exciting cause of small-pox in the neighbour-
ing districts.
Inoculation practised in northern
parts of the pergunnah.
Inoculation is also practised in the villages to the north of this Pergun-
nah. As far as I could learn, the inoculators
came down from the Jummoo territory at certain
seasons of the year, and owing to this cause, difficulty was experienced in
some of these parts,
Small-pox prevailing in northern
parts.
12.—On my arrival at Noorkote, I heard of a case of small-pox, and
from this place northwards cases were more
numerous, evory effort was made to anticipate it,
at first these efforts were successful, the vaccinators frequently arriving at a
village after only a single case had occurred, when the remainder of the un-
protected children were at once vaccinated, and only in three instances did
small-pox follow vaccination, and no doubt the variola poison had entered the
system previously to the vaccination. As the vaccinators proceeded further
on, in several villages they were too late, the disease having attacked nearly
all the unprotected. It was evidently travelling southwards, and came from
the Jummoo territory. A few cases of small-pox also occurred in the Seal-
kote district bordering this territory.
Completion of work in Shukergurh
Tehseel.
Inspected Native Superintendent
Attar Mull's work in the Sealkote
district.
13.—Having finished the Shukergurh Tehseel, I marched to Rawul
Pindi. On my way through the Sealkote dis-
trict, I inspected Native Superintendent Attar
Mull's work, he had just finished the Zufferwal
Pergunnah, I found he had kept up a very good
vaccine disease, and the number of vesicles on
each child's arms were five or six in the majority.