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change in the establishments) are I think the evident causes. Any how I feel convinced
it it not attributable to any want of interest on the part of Dr. Watson, for in know-
ledge of the Natives, both as regards their language, customs, and feelings, he is unsur-
passed, and is most conscientious in the discharge of his duties. I quite agree with
Drs. Pringle's Watson's, Richardson's, and Milne's views regarding animal vaccination,
and I trust that no more attempts will be made in that direction. Any interference
with the cow is most impolitic and dangerous; it can moreover lead to no possible good,
for the vaccine virus that we have in use is of most excellent quality and needs no
improvement. Animal vaccination has not been accepted in England, for it is not found
to possess any of the advantages claimed for it by the few enthusiasts who brought it
forward.
I have not embodied the vaccination performed in the Bundelkhund States in the
North-Western Provinces Returns, for the system in vogue there is entirely different
I will make it the subject of a separate communication.
Para. 7. Kumaon and Gurhwal Vaccine Dept.—The amount of vaccine virus
received and distributed from this depot to all parts of India during the past year was
as under:—
1871-72.
Vaccine Crusts distributed.
16,132
Vaccine Tubes distributed.
2,951
The amount is more than sufficient to meet all requirements. I would remark that, if a debit
and credit account was kept of the actual money value of the above supplies, at the lowest
estimate, it could be shown that the Kumaon Division was more than self-supporting.
One hundred tubes of vaccine virus from England were received in September last, but
neither as regards the character of the lymph or the amount of success achieved could
it compare favourably with that from the Kumaon Hills. It is chiefly useful to meet
the demands of European mammas, who are afraid to expose their children to the risk of
some imaginary peril supposed to be in lymph which has ran its course through a
black child, ignoring the fact that the sources of our supply in the Hills are cer-
tainly, of as pure, if not purer origin, than is generally met with at the vaccine stations
in our crowded England cities from which the supplies sent out are usually taken. The
chances of contamination are however so infinitesimal under any circumstances, that
even the thought of the possibility may be entirely excluded. Many hundreds of thou-
sands have been vaccinated by my Department during the 18 years that I have had the
honour to belong to it, and I can unhesitatingly say that I have never seen or
heard of any one single case in which any constitutional or local taint has been
conveyed.
Para 8. Municipalities to provide for their own Vaccination.—It being the desire
of Government that Municipalities should, as far as is possible, pay for their own vacci-
nation, every Municipality in the North-Western Provinces has been addressed on the
subject. It has been pointed out to them, that where the population falls considerably
below 30,000, (the number that a Vaccinator is under present circumstances calculated
as able to protect) two small Municipalities might combine to support one Vaccinator
between them, though such a course is not recommended (except in case of great pecu-
niary stress); for any spare time that the Vaccinator may have might be usefully
employed in protecting the neighbouring suburbs and villages, and thus diminishing the
chance of the importation of small-pox within the Municipal limits. The lower grade
pay of a Municipal Vaccinator is only Rs. 120 per annum. I beg to submit a list of
Municipalities in North-Western Provinces, distinguishing those which have pro-
vided for their own vaccination sufficiently, insufficiently, or not at all.
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