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rations carried on from that taken from Dalhousie. On the 9th Octo-
ber I returned to Chúhárí to inspect the work now being carried on
along the whole length of the valley, and found it progressing in the
most favourable manner. This valley is one of the most fertile and well
populated tracts of country in the Chamba Territory, and the people
offering no resistance to the vaccinators, work was carried on to a
larger extent, and with greater expedition, than in any other part of the
State.
Number vaccinated in
the Chamba State.
The total number of operations in the Chamba State was 4,032, of
which 1,268, or nearly a third, were done in the Chúhárí valley and
the hills near Dalhousie.
Oporations in the Kán-
gra and Núrpúr par-
ganahs during the
month of October.
8. In the tahsíls of Kángra and Núrpúr, during the month of
October, there were 729 operations performed; 505 in the former, and
224 in the latter. The percentage of success, including the cases operated
on in Chamba, was 96.36.
Commencement of the
cold season's work in
the Amritsar tahsíl.
9. AMRITSAR DISTRICT.—In the last week of October the whole of
the staff, consisting of 6 native superintendents and 24 vaccinators,
were assembled at Amritsar, and the lymph taken down from the hills
being in excellent condition, active vesicles on a large scale were quickly
established; and by the end of the first week of November, the work
of the cold season was fairly commenced.
With the exception of two or three zails and some of the larger
villages, the people of this tahsíl were not much opposed to vaccina-
tion. The greatest opposition was met with in Majítháh and Jandiúlah,
both Municipal towns of considerable size and importance. The mem-
bers of the Municipal Committees of these towns gave very little
assistance, and but a comparatively small number of children was
vaccinated. Like all Municipal Committees composed of natives only
(as far as I have had experience of them), they gave every promise of
assistance, and asserted that vaccination under their auspices would un-
doubtedly prove a success; but when the work was commenced and
their assistance necessary, they spent the time in vague conversation
regarding the immense benefits derived from vaccination, the great
benevolence of the Government in making it so accessible to the people,
and never using their influence in the least to remove the groundless
fears and erroneous notions of the ignorant; hardly anything, compara-
tively speaking, was done. I visited Jandiálah on three different occa-
sions, and endeavoured to get the Municipal Commissioners to co-operate
in the work, but without success. In a population of 6,975 only 173
vaccinations were performed, of which 80 were under one year of age,
being about a third of the annual birth-rate calculated at 1-30th of
the population. Again in Bandálah, also a Municipal town, with a
population of 5,287, only 50 children were brought to be vaccinated.
Throughout the tahsíl generally, however, a fair amount of work was
done; the zaildárs with but few exceptions accompanied the vaccina-
tors, and giving excellent assistance, the villages as a rule are tolerably
well protected from small-pox.
Number of vaccinationa
in the Amritsar tahsíl.
This tahsíl (not including the city) contains a population of
2,67,164, and the number of vaccinations was 8,497, of which 97.98 per
cent. were successful. Vaccinations were conducted in 361 villages
aggregating 32,060 houses, being in the proportion of 26.5 per cent.
In places where little assistance was given, the proportion of vaccina-
tions to houses fell to 13, and even 5 per cent.
10. CITY OF AMRITSAR.The progress of vaccination in the city,
when inspected by me about the middle of January, was in the same
unsatisfactory state as reported last year. The vaccinators were
receiving no assistance, and but comparatively little was being done.
11. TARN TARAN.—On the 7th December I passed on to the
tahsíl of Tarn Táran, where I found the people much more prejudiced,
and offering more opposition to the vaccinators, than was experienced
in the tahsíl of Amritsar. The tahsíldars too, as a body, seemed less
enlightened, and, taking less interest in the work, the progress of
vaccination in many places was very unsatisfactory. In several tahsíls