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The vesicles appeared regularly enough on the calves, and lymph was taken and
employed in vaccinating children. The resulting vesicles on the childrens' arms were
apparently neither better nor worse than those which are seen when ordinary vacci-
nation is performed from one child's arm to another. This lymph, which had been
once passed through a calf, was regularly used in Almorah in the end of last autumn,
and after five or six transmissions from one child's arm to another, supplies of it were
packed in tubes and sent to Vaccinators in the lower hills and in the plains. When
the tubes were opened, the lymph was found to be just as good as ordinary human
lymph.
The conclusion I came to, was, that animal lymph, however good it may originally
be, does not bear keeping, and cannot be used after any long interval, however care-
fully it may have been preserved in hermetically sealed tubes. If this is true, it
follows that animal lymph cannot be used for vaccine purposes in a district like the
North-Western Provinces where towns and villages are small and widely scattered.
In the hands of the Superintendent-General of Vaccination, Bombay, and of Sub-
Assistant Surgeon Anento Chandaroba animal vaccination in Bombay has been a
brilliant success, but the children were vaccinated directly from the calf or from one
child's arm to another, no tubes or points being used, I see from the Bengal Vaccine
Report for the year ending 31st March. 1871, para 8 (Animal Vaccination) that Dr.
Pinkerton who had met with such success in his own Presidency, failed in the attempt
to vaccinate children in Calcutta with lymph brought from Bombay in hermetically
sealed tubes. Another disadvantage attending the practise of animal vaccination was
strikingly illustrated during the course of my experiments. One of my servants
whom I asked to hold the calf I was operating on, left my service, rather than be
accessary to the infliction of a wound on the sacred animal. The only native I
could get, who was really willing to assist me, was a Kumaon Vaccinator. This man
assisted me heartily enough, but when it became known in the bazaar that he had
done so he incurred so much odium that he came to me, and begged me to transfer
him, at all events, temporarily, to the plains, and this I was obliged to do. I found also
much difficulty in getting calves, as many persons refused either to lend them, or to
sell them, so soon as they discovered for what purpose I wanted them. All this
prejudice could no doubt be overcome in time, but it seems unwise to offend Native
prejudice unless some great benefit is to be gained, and I believe that animal vaccina-
tion is, in every respect, inferior to ordinary human vaccination.
The operation itself, is much more difficult; there is a great amount of trouble and
expense in procuring the requisite number of calves, and the percentage of success is
much lower.
12. The Tehseeldar of Mejha, Mudud Ally Khan Bahadoor, has, as usual, done
more for the Vaccine Department than any other Native official in the North-Western
Provinces and I have the honour to request that some special mark of the thanks of
Government may be conveyed to him for the great assistance he has given this year,
and for many past years, to the cause of vaccination. I have also to place on record
the great assistance I have received from the following officials :—
Moulvie Kareem Bux, ...
Muhmood Hassun, ...
Mohamed Zahoor, ...
Alayar Khan, ...
Gunga Pershad, ...
Mobarukshah Khan, ...
Byjnauth Sahoy, ...
Sheocharun Pershad, ...
... Tehseeldar,
... „
... „
... „
... „
Sub-Inspector, Police,
... „
... „
Khaga, Futtehpore.
Sarh Sulempore, Cawnpore.
Bellhour
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Ghatumpore
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Moth, Jhansie.
Akburpore,
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Sheolee
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Bellhour,
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W. WATSON, M. B.,
Supdt. of Vaccn., Allahabad and Jhansie Divns.
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