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year. It is noticeable that the death rate from small-pox per mille in
some of the municipal towns in which the Act was not in force was the
highest in the Provinces, viz., Gházipur 2.71, Moradabad 1.33, Sambhal
and Nánpara 1.29,and Gorakhpur 96. In your next report you should
especially examine the effect of the introduction of the Act, which will,
practically speaking, date from the coming season, on the number of
operations performed in the towns in which it is in force. Judging by the
returns for municipalities, the average number of operations at present
performed by municipal vaccinators in many of the towns is insufficient,
falling far short of the provincial average. The working of the penal
sections of the Act should also be reviewed. In addition to the muni-
cipalities, the Vaccination Act is in force in the five cantonments of
Meerut, Benares, Cawnpore, Agra and Allahabad: immediate steps will
be taken to ascertain whether it cannot be extended to the remaining
cantonments of the Provinces.

9. For the first time this year operations were carried on with
no supply of lymph from England. The districts in Oudh which
last year maintained depôts for the production of animal lymph con-
tinue their arrangements this year, with the exception apparently of
Bahraich, which is not mentioned in paragraph 14 of your report. An
animal lymph depôt was started at Allahabad, making in all two
districts in the North-Western Provinces and seven in Oudh where this
system is in force. It is to be introduced in the current year in Sitapur.
You personally inspected during the year the calf lymph operations at
Gonda, and expressed yourself satisfied (in a separate report) with the
arrangements made for the supply of healthy calves and with the efficacy
of the process. The Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Commissioner fully
concurs in the remarks made in paragraph 14 of your report as to the
inexpediency of extending the system of vaccination with animal lymph
except under the strictest precautions, and then only in those districts
where insuperable objections exist to the usual arm-to-arm vaccination.
I am to enquire if tubes have been supplied for the storage of animal
lymph for use in the interior of a district, and, if not, how the lymph
is preserved. You should also report whether in the districts in which
the system is in force separate records are kept of vaccinations with
animal lymph and with human lymph : so that the results of the two
systems can be compared. It is understood that no district confines
itself exclusively to vaccination with animal lymph. At Gonda the
maintenance of a separate register was prescribed in July 1891, and I
am to request you to report briefly the conclusions to be drawn from
the record as to the final success of the experiment.

10. With reference to your remarks in paragraph 15 regarding the
prevalence of inoculation, I am to point out that the practice is only
prohibited by law and punishable in Kumaun, Garhwál and in those
municipalities and cantonments to which the Vaccination Act may
have been extended. That Act cannot be applied, as you suggest, to
portions of a district such as a talisíl.