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heifers, and one of these was immediately inoculated ; and with the lymph obtained from
this source animal vaccination was continued until the end of my tour, with nearly the
same modicum of success. In no single village were more than two or three children
vaccinated direct from the cow, and these in almost every case were of the lowest
castes. The people themselves would not give me any tangible reason for not having
their children vaccinated from the cow, but my subordinates told me they were greatly
afraid of blood being drawn, and that they were convinced that the animals would die
from the effects of the operation.

10.    During the present season small-pox has been much less prevalent than
usual, and only in some villages near Azimgurh did it threaten to become epidemic.
By the co-operation of the Magistrate and Superintendent of Police, the unprotected
in the vicinity were vaccinated, and the progress of the disease stopped.

11.    In conclusion, 1 would beg to mention the names of Syud Mehndi Ali, Teh-
seeldar of Mirzapore, and Dabee Pershad, Tehseeldar of Russrah, as having afforded
efficient assistance to the cause of vaccination during the present season.

                                                                                            I have, &c.,

                                                                                    R. M. MILNE, M.B.,
                                                                                Offg. Supdt. of Vaccination.

                                    No. 27 OF 1870.

FROM

                                            W. WATSON, ESQUIRE, M. B.,

                                                                Offg. Supdt.-Genl. of Vaccination,

                                                                                        North- Western Provinces,
To

                                            F. HENVEY, ESQUIRE,

                                                                    Offg. Junior Secy. to Govt.,

                                                                                        North- Western Provinces.

                                                                                        DATED ALMORAH, THE 6TH JUNE, 1870.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1904A.,
dated Allahabad, 5th May, 1870, and to apologize for the delay in replying to it; but
it reached me while absent on a tour of inspection of the Gurhwal Dispensaries, and
the Vaccine Report of the Bengal Government, to which it has reference, had been
left behind in my office in Almorah.

2. I entirely agree in the opinion, expressed by Dr. Charles, that inoculation, if
practised under proper conditions, ought not to be discouraged by Government, unless
they are prepared to incur the large expense which is required for the entertainment
of an efficient Vaccine Establishment. There is, however, a great difference between
the North-Western Provinces and the Government of Lower Bengal. In Bengal, as I
gather from Dr. Charles's Report, the practice of inoculation is all but universal, In
the North-West Provinces, it is unknown in the Commissionerships of Rohilkhund,
Agra, Meerut, Jhansie, and in five out of the six districts of Allahabad, and it is
practised only in the Commissionerships of Benares and Goruckpore, and in the
District of Jounpore. Even in these divisions of the country inoculation is not prac-
tised on the same extensive scale that it is in Lower Bengal, and many of the Inocula-
tors are not natives of these Provinces, but are Bengalees, who come to the North-
West on a sort of inoculation tour, and return to their homes in Bengal after the
expiration of the vaccine season.