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villages. This is the basis of the present system and, until a better can be discovered,
it might be allowed to remain undisturbed. Those who are practically acquainted with
vaccination in India must feel convinced that, short of actual compulsion, there is no
royal road to its immediate and universal adoption by the people.
22. Throughout the season, a vesicle of typical excellence has been maintained
in all the districts, although not by all the Vaccinators. From ignorance or careless-
-ess, some of the latter occasionally permitted their lymph to deteriorate. This I found
more particularly the case with men appointed on probation, and with Inoculators
authorized to vaccinate, but not brought on the regular establishment. One of these
latter was so anxious that I should see his work, that he insisted on my going 12
miles to visit 8 children whom he believed he had successfully vaccinated. I found
all of them, on the 7th day after the operation, with thin crusts of dried blood on
their arms. Another man showed me 24 children, each with a sore of some sort on
its arms, but not one with a vaccine vesicle.
23. In spite of the effectual measures taken last year by Dr. Milne for putting
a stop to falsification of returns, this has again been found to prevail to some extent.
Instead of going on from Bustee to the Fyzabad and Azimgurh road, as the Vaccinators
I had visited expected me to do, I turned back through Goruckpore. This somewhat
threw them out in thelr calculations. On my return journey, I found one Vaccinator,
a converted Inoculator, had left his post and done nothing since my first visit. An-
other, likewise an old Inoculator, had, on the 29th of February, completed his returns
for that month and carefully entered in his register the number he intended to vac-
cinate on the 1st of March. One other, also an old Inoculator, had entered as success-
ful, cases which were failures. He had never taken the trouble to visit the children
after operating on them. The rest of the Vaccinators I found at their posts and
their books correct.
24. Although I let it be known, that funds had been placed at my disposal for
the instruction and payment of Hakeems and Baids, I met with only one respectable
man who took a real interest in vaccination and practised it amongst his patients.
Zaioolah, a Hakeem, in extensive practice in Benares, vaccinated upwards of 200
children. I saw nearly 50 of these and have seldom met with better work. Several
other persons, calling themselves Hakeems, would have willingly accepted money from
me, but I could get no work from them in return.
25. From Municipal Committees, beyond the furnishing of funds, little assistance
has been received. On the contrary, in one important town, some of the Native mem-
bers of the Municipal Committee, not only gave no assistance, but even went out of their
way to discredit vaccination and hinder its progress. It may appear enlightened to vote
funds for the payment of a Vaccinator, but it would only be consistent to afford him,
at the same time, their countinuance and support.
26. Of small-pox I have seen little. I saw one child suffering from a slight
attack in the Azimgurh District. Five cases were reported as having occurred in the
Bustee District, and several in the town of Chunar. Last year the Magistrate of Gha¬
zeepore gave it to be understood that inoculation in his district would meet with his
displeasure. This had a most salutary effect in limiting the operations of the Inocu-
lators, and, as a consequence, of small-pox, I have been informed that the Inoculators
are, this year, entering the district in numbers, and shall not be surprized to learn that
small-pox keeps pace with their movements.
27. As Drs. Watson and Milne were directing their attention during the summer
to animal Vaccination, I carried out the experiment of transmitting the ordinary
humanized lymph back through the calf, and again vaccinating with it. Retro-vacci-
nation has been so repeatedly performed, that there is no need to describe the operation
in detail; suffice it to say, that I succeeded in establishing the vesicle in the calf, that I