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and Hursolee districts, but the greater part of his time seems to have been devoted to the
Native Chief's Establishment, employed in the neighbouring Myhee Kanta States. Dr. Thorp
left on sick certificate to England in November 1860.
Dr. Wyllie states:—" A considerable increase is shown in the numbers vaccinated in
the past year, as compared with those during the previous year, and the difference is due to
greater activity on the part of the various Vaccinators, who have been required, under penalty of
fine, to perform at least 30 operations each per week. Some such measure as this was certainly
called for by the large decrease noted in 1858 and 1859, and the inforcement of a forfeit when
a fixed minimum of duty is left unperformed, appears to me to work well, and to promise bet-
ter things, while it is scarcely open to any suspicion of fraud, with sharp supervision and a
strict system of check to verify the Vaccinators' Returns."
" In respect of sex, the number of males vaccinated has ever exceeded that of females. Dur-
ing the past year there were 11,378 of the former to 10,642 of the latter ; and these relative
proportions correspond closely with the experience of former years. As to age, the numbers
were 15,782 " under one year" and 6,238 above that period; in other words, full two-and-a-half
operations in the first-named category, against one in the other. The difference in this direc-
tion, which for some years past has been gradually becoming more noticeable, has now exceeded
what it has hitherto been; and the comparative scarcity of patients "above one year"—a
suggestive fact in itself—is a matter not without interest and significancy, in reference to the
progress of Vaccination among the population. The results must be considered as in every
sense satisfactory ; 20,068 having succeeded, out of a total of 22,020 operations. The ratio per
cent. of successful cases has thus been 91.1, while that of the unsuccessful amounted to 5.4,
and of the doubtful to 3.5. These figures compare favorably with past results, the average of
success for the previous five years being but 88.4. The lymph continued good throughout
the year, and as far as can be known from the Vaccinators' reports, the resulting vesicles were
well formed and normal, with exception of two instances. No case of Small-pox was met
with, a fact somewhat unusual, and one that has contributed in no small degree to place the
amount of work done in unfavorable comparison with what obtained prior to 1857; inasmuch
as the fears of the people are ever awakened by the appearance of the epidemic, which invari-
ably acts as a stimulus to Vaccination. On the other hand, measles prevailed among the in-
fantile population, from February to August, throughout the length and breadth of the Zillah,
tending for the time to retard the spread of the prophylactic; and cholera also was present in
Dhollera, Dhundooka, the Duskorie, Veerumgaum, and Prantej, from February to June. No
instance of inoculation has been reported. The practice appears to have quite died out in the
Government territory, although still employed in the neighbouring state of Marwar, where Vac-
cination will doubtless ere long displace it. As to the people at large they cannot be said to
offer opposition, not a single instance of antagonism having been brought to notice. While
some accept Vaccination willingly, the vast majority would appear to be absolutely indifferent,
and the Vaccinators' reports are unanimous in representing the Mussulman portion of the po-
pulation as being more inaccessible, and exhibiting less appreciation of the boon extended than
the Hindoos. I regret to have had no opportunity of personally testing this fact, but accept
it as trustworthy, because it is strictly in accordance with what passes daily under my own
observation in the city. The system at present obtaining for the spread of Vaccination appears
to work satisfactorily."