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very unwilling to allow the lymph to be taken from their children's arms,
for the purpose of vaccinating other children. This acts as a great draw-
back, the lymph supply gets interrupted and often a week or two pass with-
out any operations being performed.

2.     The percentage of successful cases was 90.7.

3.     The lymph employed was generally good, but great difficulty was ex-
perienced in keeping up its supply. Lymph was introduced several times from
Bombay, by sending a man by train so that it might be used the same day.

4.     No cases of small-pox were admitted during the year.

                                    KALIA'N DISPENSARY.

Assistant Surgeon A Bomanjí, G.G.M.C.
Population 12,804.

161 Operations were performed during the year. This number, when com-
pared with the population of the town, which according to the last census is
12,804, is I must confess small. There is no want of zeal on my part nor of aid
from the mámledár and other officials, but the people are much behind in recog-
nizing the value of vaccination. For the most part they offer resistance to vacci-
nation and still greater resistance against allowing lymph to be taken from their
children's arm, so much so that for the latter three and a half months of the year—
the time during which I held charge of this dispensary—the lymph was brought
from a distance four or five times. Once a week I go into the town and collect
children for operations near the mámledár's kacheri or other convenient part as
near the houses of the inhabitants of Kalian as possible.

2.     Of the total number vaccinated there were 139 hindús, 15 muslamáns, 6
pársis, and 1 of low caste. There were 68 males and 93 females.

3.     The number vaccinated this year shows a fall when compared with the
previous year, and I am unable to account for this, inasmuch as I have been in
charge of this dispensary during the latter three and a half months only of the
year. In future I shall try my best to vaccinate a greater number of subjects.

                    KHA'NDESH BHIL CORPS HOSPITAL.

Mr. J. A. Lafond, Apothecary.
Population 10,385.

Vaccination in the Bhil Corps Police was carried out by myself and my assis-
tant with the following results :—

Primary Vaccination.—Under this heading 61 children were vaccinated, of
these 27 were under 1 year old and 34 above that age. 51 of the operations were
successful, 10 failed, and the result of one child, who was twice vaccinated, could
not be ascertained as the mother left the lines, taking the child with her, after the
second operation. The 10 cases that failed occurred chiefly amongst weakly
children and children of Bhils, who, as a rule, are very neglectful of their offspring
in many ways.

Revaccination.—As a large body of recruits for the Khándesh Bhil Corps and
unarmed police were entertained during the year, I commenced to revaccinate
them in June and completed the undertaking in September with the following re-