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this man brought up to this pitch; had he not been an old vaccinator, I should long ago have
recommended his dismissal; but I hope he will continue to do his work well and
send in true Returns; any lapse in either must I feel be visited with dismissal from
the service, I have warned him, that such shall be his punishment if ever he transgress
again. While I write I have received a letter from the Kardar of Maujhandah stating that
Jettah Mull is still in the habit of begging murad. I shall make personal inquiries shortly
about this. From Sehwan I passed over to the left bank of the Indus and into Nowshera
District. It was now the 8th of April, and the heat both night and day was almost unbearable.
I have served through hot seasons in Aden and the southern bight of the Persian Gulf, but
the heat here last April was greater than in either of these hot places; it was so great that
I could only inspect a very few villages near my camp. Thence I marched straight on
Hydrabad, the heat sensibly diminishing south of Halla ; en route I saw a few villages gone
over by General No. 148 Lalloo. This man's work I have always found exactly true, and
what is of great importance, his method of doing his work gives the villagers great satisfac-
tion, by them he is always hailed as a friend and meets a hearty welcome; in this respect there
is marked difference from most of the vaccinators, who are not so happy in their
relations with the pepole. In May I passed down into Lar, where the presence of the
sea breeze mitigated the heat and made it much more bearable, but still it was terribly
great. Towards the end of the month I made a run across the District of Mahomed Khan's
Tanda, examining the work of General No. 195 Kowrah Mull, and also a little which had
been done by local vaccinator Ram Chand, who had just been trained by Kowrah Mull.
I had every reason to be satisfied with both vaccinators. I found Kowrah Mull going
steadily over the Talooka of Buddeenah, and doing his work carefully. At the beginning of
June I examined the work of General No. 246 Diaram, in the Bage-jo-Tanda Talooka; he had
then been nearly a year on the establishment, he was working away steadily, but had frequently
complained of meeting with opposition from the villagers. He is a young, active and
intelligent man. I fancied he was probably not sufficiently conciliating towards the villagers,
I impressed on him the great necessity of his being courteous to them ; and that for every
frivolous difficulty, he must not expect the Mookhtiyarkar to step in and assist him; that
he must depend on his own method of persuasion and conciliation; however, the Mookh-
tiyarkar, whom I said, had occasionally given him assistance in allaying any spirit of opposition,
and promised to continue his assistance when necessary. I had a suspicion that Diaram was
not expending sufficient money in payment to parents, for carrying their children from one
village to another with him, or that he was misappropriating a part of it; but I am happy to
say that in the villages which I inspected I did not discover any dishonesty, still I thought he
might have advantageously spent more of the Rupees 2 allowed per mensem. I told him to
spend it, and not spare it, making it go as far and as equally as possible. When I was in
this talooka there were a few cases of cholera. The disease originated among a few fakirs,
who had come from Kurrachee, where the disease then existed, to a mera—a kind of fair held
at a shrine—in the village of Shah Towrail. The alarm among the people was sadly out of all
proportion to the extent or virulence of the disease, and the reports in the Kurrachee news-
papers were greatly exaggerated. I could notice that the distribution of the bottles
of cholera mixture by the Deputy Collector had a very happy and inspiriting effect.
The Sindhis have great faith in English medicine for cholera, and none in Sindhi medicine.
After leaving Bage-jo-Tanda, I marched west and saw a few children, en route, recently
vaccinated by General No. 142 Chellah Ram, and also some villages which had been gone
over by General No. 197 Jehanjee Mull, during the previous year, the work had been well