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25. The following is an abstract of that statement:—

Work in abeyance for 6 months, rea-
sons for its non-continuance throughout
the year.

26. Work is in abeyance from April to Octo-
ber, and I do not consider it desirable just now,
whatever may be advisable afterwards, to carry on
vaccination throughout the whole year. The chief grounds on which I base this
opinion are, I do not believe that in Berar vaccination could, with any degree of
success, be carried on all the year round, except by from arm to arm vaccination,
and this in the wilder tracts is at present impracticable. Even in the more civilized
places it could not be attempted without a very great deal of trouble and inter-
ference. Secondly, the people here have a great objection to re-vaccination in
cases in which the first operation was doubtful or failed, and cases of this descrip-
tion would be more common in the hot and damp months, if we used lymph kept
in tubes or on points, than in the cold season. People who have willingly brought
forward their children for vaccination have positively refused to have them re-
vaccinated, pretending to believe that they have so much faith in us that the mere
entrance of our lancet under the skin is sufficient to ward off small-pox. The facts
being, they are against us, and if afterwards those children who have been unsuc-
cessfully vaccinated get small-pox, they are brought forward and shown to us as a
proof of the uselessness of vaccination. During last season numerous cases of
children who had been vaccinated, and afterwards took small-pox, were shown to
me, but in all, except one case, there was no scar to show that the operation had
been successful, and in this one there were two scars, not typical, but raised scars,
and the vaccinator informed me that the vesicles when formed were remarkably
fine, and that he took from both a large quantity of lymph—one should have been
left intact—and that afterwards the arm got rubbed and was very sore. The case
was, however, one of " modified small-pox" there being only a few vesicles on the
trunk and extremities when I saw it.

My object explained and illucidated.

27. It is my object to get good honest work,
and with this object in view I have explained and
written a good deal during the year, and I think with some good effect. The fol-
lowing figures give a fair idea of the quantity of the work performed:—