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of them. ' The desirability of the remainder being admitted, they can stand over for
future budgets. I also trust that year by year permission will be given to continue
the practice of doubling the strength of the establishments in such zillahs as are
supposed to be ripe for it. Much has within recent years been done in this direction
with much benefit to the country; and a steady adherence to the same policy will
ero long cover the land with a staff of vaccinators capable of dealing with a malady
that now simply overwhelms us by its magnitude, possessing as we do so inadequate
a force to grapple with it. There are other minor items required to put the depart-
ment upon what I consider a sound footing; but they can wait until these more
immediate wants are satisfied. It must be borne in mind that as the numbers of vac-
cinators increase, in proportionate ratio will the cost of each case diminish, as the
same amount of supervising agency, within a given area, will suffice.
24. Conclusion.—Given the means, I know of no department which has it in its
power to render such unmixed good to the people, or to do more signal service to the
state.
I have, &c.,
F. PEARSON,
Supdt.-General of Vaccination, N.-W. Provinces.
Report by SURGEON R. PRINGLE, M.D., Superintendent of Vaccine, Agra and Meerut
Division, on the vaccine operations from April 1st, 1872, to October 22nd, 1872.—
Dated Mussoorie, the 22nd October, 1872.
Report on vaccine lymph from the
Privy Council.
A SUPPLY of fifty tubes was received on the 14th March, 1872, from the National
Vaccine Institution, London, through the Privy
Council, the report on which is as under:—Of the 50
tubes, in only one was the lymph found to be dried up; the remaining 49 were well
filled with clear lymph, free from impurities; and altogether this is by far the best sup-
ply I have ever received from this source. The operations with the tubes used were
eminently successful.
Commencement of vaccine opera-
tions.
2. A commencement was made with the above lymph under my own superin-
tendence in the middle of April, 1872, near Mussoo-
rie. The lymph from these cases was taken to
Jounsar Bawar, where vaccination was fully established by the middle of May; and
from there it was carried into the Teraie country, to the district selected for the lymph
nursery, for the hot and rainy season of 1872.
On the arrival of my Native Superintendent, however, it was found that the ino¬
culators had been beforehand, and that inoculation had been extensively practised.
So largely had this been had recourse to, that at first I feared I should be compelled to
remove my lymph nursery to another district of Teraie Gurhwal; but, by very extensive
vaccination, as will be seen by the returns for June and July, the risk of small-pox
spreading was overcome, and the collection of vaccine lymph commenced, but under
very great disadvantages, as the numerous operations at first kept the vaccinators
fully employed, and it was not till the end of July that tubes could be filled.
Collection of lymph.
3. For reasons given in the previous para. this could not be commenced as early as
usual, but up to the present date, 1,600 tubes have
been received and 500 crusts. The small number of
crusts as compared with the numerous operations is entirely due to the circumstance
that the complete absence of quarantine with such extensive inoculation led to a very
severe outbreak of small-pox, rendering it dangerous to collect crusts, in case a villager
might, quite unintentionally, bring a small-pox crust instead of a vaccine one; and
therefore orders were issued that only those crusts were to be collected of the origin
of which there could be no doubt. In a previous report I alluded to the great risk