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10. No injurious effects of vaccinating children suffering from Hooping Cough.—At first 1
was a little afraid of vaccinating children suffering from this disease, and hesitated whether-
I should stop vaccine operations, but finding it produced no injurious effects, I continued,
taking care to omit those who were in the early or inflammatory stage of the disease.
11. Medical aid in great need.—I had with me a supply of medicines, and the people
flocked in from nearly every village for treatment: there was a great deal of sickness, and the
people were very eager for European medical aid. One day as I was passing a village, I found
a number of persons waiting on the road-side with their children for me to treat.
12. Juggut Sookh.—My next march was to Juggut Sookh, 8 miles further up the valley,
at an elevation of 6,527 feet, vaccinating the children in the villages around, and on inspection,
Found a very large proportion of success, and the vesicles all that could be desired. I then
moved on to Menalee, proceeding as before, here the vesicles were perfect and the success com-
plete. From these, as well as on previous occasions, I filled a number of capillary tubes with
vaccine lymph for distribution, &c.
13. Pulchan.—I then went on to Pulchan, and here I completed the work in this valley,
having vaccinated the children of all the villages on both sides of the river Beas.
14. Parbuttee valley.—Having sent the vaccinators on ahead, I marched into the
Parbuttee valley ( Kulú), and commenced work at Choug on 1st June ; here it was extremely
hot and .sultry, and, in consequence, the vaccine vesicles were small and unsatisfactory. Having
vaccinated the villages in this neighbourhood, I moved up the valley to Jerré, and here I was
only able to vaccinate about 22 children ; this was the only place in the whole of Kulú I had any
difficulty in, and this not without excuse. The head-men of each village came to my tent and
begged me to wait, they said the heat was so great they feared the vaccine disease. I did my
best to persuade them that there was no danger from the heat to the children, but with only
partial success.
15. Muníkurn—I next proceeded to Muníkurn, and vaccinated all the children in this
neighbourhood; this completed the work in the valley of the Parbuttee river.
16. Mundi Territory.—I now sent the Native Superintendent and his Vaccinators
to Budwanee on the new road from Kulú to Kangra, this being in the Mundi Territory, I
wrote to His Highness the Raja informing him of my intention of vaccinating the villages
along the new road through his territory, and asking him to send intimation to the people ; he
sent assistance at once, and the work was done very satisfactorily.
17. Arrival at Dhurmsala.—In the mean time, very heavy rains detained me on the
road until the 18th June, when the rainy season appeared to have regularly settled in ; so I
thought it prudent to proceed straight on to Dhurmsala, where I arrived on the 27th. The
Native Superintendent and Vaccinators remaining, vaccinated the children in all the villages
lying in the vicinity of the new road between Budwanee and Jutingree.
18. Success of work in Kulú.—With the exception mentioned in para 14, I had no
difficulty in vaccinating in any part of Kulú ; the people seemed to thoroughly appreciate this
valuable prophylactic, and they appeared to me to be free from the superstition met with in the
plains.
19. Lahoulí people appreciate vaccination.—During the vaccine operations in the valley,
a number of children of Lahoulí merchants were vaccinated, they appeared to appreciate it, and
in one instance a family came up to me at Menalee, and begged of me to vaccinate them, which
I did, the Vaccinators having gone on to the Parbuttee.
20. Number of vaccine operations in Kulú.—The total number of vaccine operations
performed in Kulú under my superintendence is 2,161, of which 2,047 were successful, 80
doubtful, 34 unsuccessful, and 1 unknown. The per-centage of successful operations being
94.72. The proportion of females to males is 930 of former, to 1,231 of the latter.
21. Dhurmsala.—During the rains vaccine operations were carried on in Dhurmsala
and the neighbouring villages, but not much work could be done owing to the rains and
paucity of the population; but the vaccine disease was kept up.
22. Out-breaks of small-pox checked by vaccination.—Small-pox broke out at Noorpoor,
Kotta, and Kangra in April; and at Nurmoond near Plach in May. As soon as it came to my
notice, Vaccinators were sent to each place, and the disease was in each instance considerably
checked, particularly at Nurmoond and Kangra, where it assumed rather a violent type at first;
a large number of vaccinations were performed around these infected places, and the disease was
stamped out.