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disinfected, the spread of the disease would generally be
prevented.

If a general order were issued to all lambardárs or heads
of villages, explaining the nature of the disease and holding
them responsible that the affected person is not allowed to
leave his house, and to warn the people in the village against
going into the infected house, together with instructions for
disinfecting the clothes &c., they would practically be carried
out.

28.    INOCULATION.—Believing that small-pox inoculation
was much more extensively practised in the Panjáb than was
generally known, I thought it would be useful if an enquiry
were made throughout the Panjáb. I wrote to the Inspector
General of Police, Colonel Hutchinson, who kindly instituted
enquiries through District Superintendents. The following
is the purport of their replies, supplemented by previous
knowledge: —

It appears that in the Dehli, Hissár and Ambálah
Divisions (Commissionerships) inoculation has never been in
much vogue, with the exception of Simla and part of
Ambálah, where it has ceased for some years to be practised.
In the Multán, Siálkót, and Gujránwála districts, it formerly
prevailed, but has now given place to vaccination.

It is partially practised in the northern portions of the
Gurdáspúr and Muzaffargarh districts, and in Jhang it is
practised to a small extent, but is gradually dying out. It is
extensively practised throughout the districts of Kángra,
Gujrát, Jhelam, Sháhpúr (especially in the Salt Range, where
in three months 540 people were inoculated), Hazárá, Hoshiár-
púr (especiallythe U'nah sub-division, performed by Brahmans),
in the Attok sub-division of the Ráwalpindí district, and
seldom in the other parts of the district, where it is not popu-
lar; vaccination having now gained a good footing and sup-
planted it. In Pesháwar, where Dr. Bellew states that it is
practised every spring (February and March), mostly by the
Mián fraternity, more especially of Káka Khel. "The
Miáns, numbering about 100, are distributed over the whole
valley, of whom about half practise inoculation." It is also
practised in the Deraját Division and in Kohát.

The above will be useful in noting the gradual disappear-
ance of this objectionable practice, and the substitution of
vaccination.

29.    INOCULATION OF HEIFERS.—The attempt to inoculate
heifers at the Hissár cattle farm has again failed : the medical
officer having tried on several occasions. The Superintendent
General of Vaccination, Bombay, kindly sent me six tubes of
animal vaccine; and on a second occasion ten ivory points
charged with animal lymph. With part of this I operated on
a calf myself, but unsuccessfully, and the remainder I sent to
Mr. Cooper at Hissár; but unfortunately he was unsuccessful¹
with this also.

30.    VACCINE LYMPH.—Towards the latter part of Septem
ber, the supply of English vaccine having arrived, I gave sor