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It would make a report on the working of the Animal Lymph Depôt more complete
if indenting officers would return the counterfoils.

Chamárs and small-pox.

12. Under the present system of registration the castes of people who die from
small-pox is not shown. I would beg to suggest that in the case of
any death from small-pox the caste of the person should also be
shown, for, owing to the steady vaccination which has gone on for years amongst Chamárs,
Mehtars and low-caste people, one might reasonably expect to find hardly any mortality
from small-pox among them. If this proceeding were adopted some evidence could be
obtained as to the protective value of vaccination.