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of little value. A dishonest vaccinator will always arrange that unsuccessful cases,
entered as successful, should not be present at the inspection. Ascertaining the result
of the operation in such absentees usually involves a visit to the house of the parents,
very likely at some distance, and a good deal of time is spent in so doing. The official
anxious to show a large number of inspections usually takes the vaccinator's word
as to the result, and hurries on to another village. In my experience the condi-
tion and quality of vaccination in a district by no means generally correspond with
the apparent zeal and industry of the Assistant Superintendent as shown by returns.
It will be noted that the percentage of success observed by superior officers of the
Department this year was greater than that claimed by the vaccinators, and this fact
points, primâ focie, to the probability of the general accuracy of the records.

The supply of lymph.

18. The supply of lymph from the hills was good and the work was started satis-
factorily in the plains on due date. In the 2nd Circle the
collection of lymph and its despatch to the plains com-
menced earlier than usual and all districts were supplied by the 21st of August. But
the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner reports that this supply was almost altogether
inert, and he considers that the lymph had become sterilized by the heat in the valleys on
its passage to the plains. This is doubtless correct. He however kept up continuous
supplies until vaccination was properly started in all districts. He considers that it
will be sufficiently early if the lymph reaches the plains by the 15th of September, and in
this view I concur.

The unusual prevalence of small-pox in the provinces in the spring threw a good
deal of extra work on the Department in the matter of supplying fresh lymph in tubes
to cantonments and other localities where the disease had broken out. In anticipa-
tion however of this demand continuing after the regular operations had ceased in the
plains, arrangements were made for lymph to be regularly collected in the hills and
despatched to all applicants. The plan proved of service, and some 1,200 tubes were
sent out.

The following is a list of the applicants who were supplied with lymph during
the season 1895-96:—

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