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influence His Highness to keep up Vaccinators, I would most willingly go there, and
try what I could do; but after the recent trial, I fear some time must elapse before I
could do much good.

7.    The following are a few causes of the decrease in the number of vaccinations
performed by some of the Government Vaccinators : 1st. Jettah Mull, Wuttun Mull,
and Nubby Bux were employed in thinly populated talookas; 2nd. One Assistant
Vaccinator was dismissed the Service for being absent from his talooka without leave;
3rd. Thackoordass lost one month's work by being prevented from returning to his
talooka from privilege leave during the time intercourse was forbidden with Upper
Sind on account of the prevalence of cholera there. But the chief reason of the
decrease is, as already stated in the opening paragraph of this Report, the diminished
number of unprotected persons in the province.

8.    The Government Vaccinators vaccinated 18,661 males and 15,160 females,
being 55.17 and 44.82 per cent., respectively. The local Vaccinators vaccinated
12,020 males and 9,834 females, or 55.0 and 44.99, respectively, in each hundred. The
Khyrpoor Vaccinator vaccinated 1,409 males and 1,120 females, or 55.71 of the
former and 44.28 of the latter in every hundred. On the total, the percentage of
males is 55.29, and of females 44.69. This is nearly the same proportion as the
sexes bore to each other in the Report for 1866 ; the difference being only 0.40 less
of males, and the same fraction more of females, this year in every hundred.

9.    The following shows the percentages of the castes vaccinated by three
Establishments :—

The most important feature in the foregoing table is the great increase of vacci-
nations among Hindoos,—15.53 per cent.,—being far more than in previous years, and
is probably fully more than the proportion Hindoos bear to the rest of the population
of the province. In former years it was a constant source of regret that Hindoos
were generally averse to vaccination, but this shows that their aversion is disappearing ;
though it still is a fact that many Hindoos do object to vaccination, and prefer to
accept the " dispensation of Providence" to using any precautions against small-pox,
either by way of vaccination or variolous inoculation: indeed, it would seem that
many are rather glad when their children take small-pox. Last hot season I saw a