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and instructed, operated upon as many as he could get submitted to him, but
found great difficulty in persuading parents to bringing their children to him
though he was in the habit of bribing the latter with pice.
The numbers vaccinated did not have any appreciable effect in preventing
the spread of the disease.
26. The men of my establishment began to arrive early in February, and
were all in the district before the middle of the month. At that time small-
pox was scattered throughout the district.
27. On March 20th I entered Baitool from East Berar, and was met by the
Naib Tehseeldar of Badnoor at the town of Bainsdahee on the western border of
the district.
On the 20th and following day I operated upon 479, collected from 19
villages; on the 22nd, 221 were brought from 14 villages; on 23rd, 380 from 17
villages, and so on. Immediately round the Civil Station itself 705 were vaccinated
by me in two days, and before I left the district I had vaccinated 3,675 from 165
towns and villages, besides examining the work of my Vaccinators and comparing
it with their returns as I went along.
28. I found the people everywhere in a condition of expectation. My
Vaccinators had spread themselves through the Tehseels, and where they had not
been able themselves to persuade parents, had nevertheless so excited their in-
terest, that on my arrival at any place hundreds were readily collected from
neighbouring villages, many voluntarily coming eight or ten miles to hear my ex-
planations, and to submit themselves or their children to the operation at my
hands. A number of infants seven or eight days old were so brought.
29. The Tehseel authorities gave me excellent assistance in advertising my
route and collecting the people. They also took great interest in the work
itself, and in places that I was not able to visit my Superintendents report that
the work went on well after my departure.
30. During my progress through both.Wurdah and Baitool I endeavoured
to examine the work of the Municipal Vaccinators. This I could not do satis-
factorily, there were no lists at any village, the Vaccinators themselves were not
present with their registers, so that I could not compare returns with work done.
A few persons I found successfully vaccinated, but many instances of failure were
brought to my notice, and many were revaccinated by myself.
Two undoubted instances of false returns I detected. At Waltora, a village
in the Arvee tehseel, Wurdah district, nine children reported to have been suc-
cessfully vaccinated by the Municipal Vaccinator, were re-vaccinated by me. Of
these 9 cases, I was unsuccessful, in 2 the result could not be found out, but in
6, proper vesicles followed my operation,--a positive proof that they had not
been successfully vaccinated before, as reported by the Municipal Vaccinator.
His returns therefore must be considered untrustworthy.
In Baitool, in the neighbourhood of Bainsdahee, or the extreme border of
the district, a place not likely to be visited by the Civil Medical Officer,
22 persons were brought to me as having been vaccinated by the Municipal
Vaccinator six weeks before my arrival. No one had come to examine the results
of the operations, which I found had all failed.
On examining the Vaccinator's register at Badnoor I discovered that he
had entered 2 taken at random as failures, but the 20 others as successes.