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The first day's examination of this man's work convinced me that all was not right, cases
that should have been entered as unsuccessful were reported successful, whilst many children
had escaped being vaccinated altogether. I soon arrived at a village in the heart of the jungle
called Lamajotí, in which a number of children were returned as vaccinated ; I found, however
that this was false, the man had not been in the village, nor had the children been vaccinated
on enquiry the vaccinator assured me that a tolá of another village bearing the same name
was that he worked in. I was obliged to accept this at the time, pending further enquiries,
and I subsequently ascertained that a second village of this name did not exist.
The matter has been reported to the Sanitary Commissioner, who has directed the man
to be dismissed; his returns have all been carefully examined, and all false entries discovered
have been expunged
The next circle examined was Ashtá, under the sole charge of Imdád Alí,—Jawán Khan
having gone to Nágpúr ill, without having done a day's work. 1 found this man's work excellent
in every respect, he is young, very intelligent, and has I think succeeded in making the people
reconciled to the operation; vaccination here was not confined to small children, I have seen
girls of about 15 years old successfully operated on.
Immediately north of this lies the Gondí iláka, and belongs to the Díwán Mohammad
Najaf Khán. The vaccinator there, Bíháií Lál, worked very well, the people appeared content
ed, and the returns were all correct.
The next examined was Ghansor, vaccinators Shaikh Karím Bakhsh and Abdul Wáhab.
These men's returns were invariably correct, but at first much carelessuess was exhibited,—they
omitted in many instances to furnish the usual village returns, in some instances they did
not return for results, and in a few they vaccinated children who had marks of small-pox
on them, many of the children vaccinated had small-pox, though to a superficial observer no
marks appeared as the result, and although their parents explained this to the vaccinators
still they thought it better to be on the safe side and vaccinated notwithstanding ; the result
was of course " unsuccessful," this raised the percentage of these cases higher than it should
have been. A few villages in Abdulwáhab's circle were not visited by him at all, but their
names did not appear in the returns
In March my route lay at first north-east of Seoní, I then went on to Uglí and so on
through Keiolá and Kataugí.
Faizuddín's work was examined first , here I had the same things to complain of,—village
forms not having been supplied, and results in a few instauces not ascertained, yet I did not
find the man's returns wrong.
In Uglí the work proceeded slowly, but was well done, the results therefore are not as
large as could have been wished, but as regards quality there is nothing to be desired, the
maiks were good, each Málguzár had his village form which corresponded with the number
of children vaccinated.
I thus examined each man's work, except Abdulsalàm Khan's, this I reserved for last, it
being near Seoní, and then went on to Katangí, where six out of the nine were working.
The men of whose work I had to complain in the Seoní tahsíl were working better here ;
the warning they received had some effect though there was still room for improvement.
The work here at the end of March being in full swing, the vesicles good, and several
villages yet unprotected, I. ordered the vaccinators to continue operations till the 15th of April;
this arrangement was subsequently sanctioned by the Sanitary Commissioner, the numbers
thus vaccinated in April are given in separate returns.
In April I made a short tour through that portion of the district west of Seoní under
the charge of Abduhalám Khàn ; this man's returns were generally in such a state of confusion
that I ordered the Native Superintendent early in the season to examine his work thoroughly;
he confined his labours to the heart of the open country, and only succeeded in ascertaining
that the man had falsified his returns in returning unsuccessful cases as successful I considered
therefore that it would be well if I visited those parts of the circle where I was probably
least expected.
I therefere went up the extreme western border avoiding the rich open country, then
along the northern, and down the eastern borders, and there I discovered a state of things
for which I was not at all prepared,—out of 36 villages that I examined 30 had not been
visited by the vaccinator at all, of these 19 had been returned as vaccinated successfully, 11had