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edly to the Liberal distribution of quinin free of cost 

 through the different branches of the government serv- 

 ice. Free vaccination is performed on a very large 

 scale, 84,019 cases during the year covered by the re- 

 port. A very interesting account is given of the ex- 

 perience of the medical officers in carrying out the 

 prophylactic serum treatment (Haffkine) during the 

 epidemic of bubonic plague, and the prejudice of the 

 people against this measure was only overcome by the 

 noble example of one of their chiefs. 



"In regard to inoculation, the adoption of this in the 

 early days of the epidemic was most difficult and at one 

 time apparently hopeless; but patience, tact and moral 

 sausion at last overcame the dense ignorance and stupid 

 prejudices of the villagers. The last argument, and 

 that which really compelled them to give way in the 

 end, was the fact that their nazim stripped and bared 

 his body before their eyes in order to be inoculated as 

 an object lesson. This they would not allow, and rather 

 than that he should be a scapegoat in their behalf, a 

 few consented. The plunge was made and all followed 

 suit; before many had been inoculated others clam- 

 ored to be inoculated at once as they could not afford 

 to run the risk of delay in waiting to be done in their 

 proper order and turn, and protested against others 

 being inoculated before themselves. When once they 

 saw and believed that no harm and little inconveni- 

 ence followed the inoculation, they implicitly believed 

 in it and attributed to it many virtues which it does not 

 possess nor lay claim to." What a striking illustra- 

 tion of 



"Men are but children of a larger growth." — 

 Dryden. 



MAYO HOSPITAL. 



The Mayo Hospital, so called in memory of a former 

 governor of this part of India, is the government gen- 

 eral hospital of Jaipur and is the largest of the twenty- 

 six hospitals and dispensaries in the state of Jaipur. 



