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nated. In Shapur there was very little work done at the time of my arrival. I
had the children from the surrounding villages collected and had 419 fresh cases
operated on at my tents.
Sham Lall, the eldest son of Ramdeen, the Malguzar, afforded me every
assistance in inducing the people to bring forward their children.
From Shapur I was obliged to return to the Sadar station on the 27th,
and had 60 children vaccinated during a two hours' halt at Nimpani, which is
about half way.
This Circle, as well as those of Bordha and Cherapatla, were in charge of
3rd Class Vaccinator Beharee Lall, and I found very little work indeed done
by him.
On the 31st I went to Sasundra on my way to the west. There was no
work done at this place by the Vaccinator in charge up to the time of my visit.
I halted one day and had 209 children from surrounding villages collected
and vaccinated in my camp.
I arrived atMultaion January 3rd. On considering the population of the place
and the number of large villages which are in the vicinity, I found very little
work done. I had the children collected for about 2 miles all round and had 925
fresh cases done. On the 4th and 5th I became ill from too much exposure to
sun and was obliged to return to the station on the 7th. I was not able to go
into camp again until the 17th February, when I proceeded down the Taptee valley,
which I had not previously seen. I found all the children, about 380, vaccinated
at Jullar. There were only 10 left to be operated on at my camp.
On 20th I visited Bheisdye, a large village in the south-east. I had all the
children collected from the surrounding villages, and found 200 vaccinated,
and 34 more operated on at my camp ; there were some cases of small-pox in
this and the adjoining circles about 30 in all. I caused the affected place to be
purified, and gave directions for the treatment of the sick. The disease did
not spread.
From Bheisdye I proceeded along the south-east of the district visiting the
villages of Goodgaon, Saithnair, Dabba, Dahka, Masode, Atner, Badowra, and
arrived in the Sadar station about the latter end of March. In those villages I
found a total of 1,330 children vaccinated, and I had 1,540 fresh cases operated
on in my camp. In carrying out my inspections this year I adopted the plan of
encamping in the centre of a number of villages and caused the Kotwars to
bring the children of their villages to my tents for examination.
I found this plan to work very well. In most parts of the district many of
the people brought forward their children without much hesitation, although I
must say that in some places, even where the people come forward freely,
many children were kept back as their parents did not fully comprehend the
nature or object of the operation and rested under the impression that their
children would die after it. I adopted every means in my power to dispel their
fears, and to explain to them, as far as possible, the benefits to be derived from
the work, and have reason to believe that my efforts were in a great measure
successful ; but in some places the Vaccinators met determined opposition, and
in such cases I directed them to use all the gentle persuasive measures in their
power to induce the people to let their children be vaccinated, but under no
circumstances were they to resort to violence in order to carry out their work.