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the Vaccinator placed himself in communication with the Patel and Kotwal, and
accompanied by them he went vaccinating from house to house. I am convinced
that very few children, if any, escape when door to door vaccination is practised;
the Patel and Kotwal know pretty accurately the number of children in every
house, and if disposed therefore, as they generally are, to aid in the matter,
the work cannot be otherwise than thoroughly done. After completion of the
work in one circle, the Vaccinator was moved on to another beat to work alone,
or sent to assist one of his fellows. The objections, however, in my opinion to
this plan of working in circles are, that the Vaccinators are often placed at
a distance from the Native Superintendent; that much of this officers time
is wasted therefore in travelling to and fro, and that his inspections must neces-
sarily also be short and hurried. I purpose therefore next season, instead of
allotting circles to the Vaccinators, to mass the whole staff, so that the Native
Superintendent could take them all together from taluq to taluq in succession ;
the men would thus be constantly under supervision, the Superintendent would
have shorter journeys to make, and more time therefore to thoroughly inspect
the villages in which work is reported to have been done, and he would also be
able to at once ensure the delivery of village forms to Patel or Kotwal.
5. Unfortunately I was not able to inspect the work of the Vaccinators
more than twice. On the first occasion I left Seoni on the 7th January 1873, and
on the morning of the 8th inspected Vaccinator Beharee Lal's work in the vil-
lages of Saduk Seoni, Deori, Chota Chapara, Kuch Chapara, and Chapara.
In Saduk Seoni, Behari Laul appears to have done very well, but in the other
villages he had very little to show; and in a large native city like Chapara, his
work was almost nil, the few children vaccinated being the children of Chamars.
It is said that the more respectable inhabitants of Chapara objected to have their
children vaccinated. Since January, however, no less than 140 children were
vaccinated here by the Native Superintendent and Vaccinator Mahomed Ali.
I also inspected Mahomed Ali's work in the villages of Tinsa and Chandani;
the work was well done. On the 9th I inspected Kadir Bux's work in Ganesh-
gunj, Syhat Puri and Jogi Koppa ; and then went on to the village of Samurthal
to enquire into a report made by Kadir Bux, that the Patel (a Gond) of that
village had obstructed him in his work : the Patel denied all the charges brought
against him, and brought counter charges against Kadir Bux. Bassudeo Misser,
the Native Superintendent, had only that morning vaccinated the 6 children
belonging to the village. I returned to Seoni on the 10th January.
Urgent work in the station detained me so long that my next tour of
inspection did not commence till the 14th of March; on the 15th my camp moved
from Bandole to Chapara, and the same morning I inspected Kadir Bux's work
in the village of Kursepar; the total number of children vaccinated in the
village was 25, and among these I noted 24 successful operations. In the after-
noon I visited Chapara, and noted 87 successful operations out of a total of 100.
The Sonars in this place appear to have been the principal objectors to vaccina-
tion ; this time, however, I succeeded in gaining their consent, and 42 children
more were vaccinated here this day. On the 16th I visited the villages of Pin-
dryee, Katghur, Sagar, Lurghu, and Andheari; the work was well done in these
places On the 17th I moved across from Chapara to Bhimgarh, and en route
visited the villages of Arundea, Karoli, Anjineea, Gandi and Kappa. Kadir
Bux and Mohamed Ali have done good work here. At Bhimgarh I noted 45
successful operations out of a total of 50. On the 18th, leaving Bhimgarh
inspected the villages of Hurduli and- Madongri and encamped at Murwara.
Beharee Lal's work here was very satisfactory. On the 19th, left Murwara,
visited the villages of Thegra, Kuakhera, Dhunowra and Sukwa and encamped
at Cheri. Abdul Wahab has done remarkably well in all these places; he was