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fact, as has been stated by former Superintendents, of a great portion of his districts
lying below the Ghauts, where no, or very little, opposition is met with.
In contrast to the above statement respecting the increase of pay to the Meeruz
Vaccinator, I regret to have to record that the Chief of Bhore has thought fit to reduce
his Vaccinator's pay by Rs. 3.
The Sanglee Vaccinator is paid a higher rate than any Vaccinator, either in
Government or other establishment, I wish I could add his work proportionately cor-
responded in point of numbers.
10. Prevalence of Small-pox.
No regular returns of small-pox are received. It has been reported from time to
time as prevailing sporadically in all the Collectorates of the Circle, and in an epide-
mic form in the talooka of Beedee, in the Belgaum Collectorate, where, in passing, I
beg to state, from personal observation, the introduction of vaccination is attended
with the greatest difficulty, owing to the prejudices and non-belief of the people in its
efficacy; also in parts of Dharwar and North Canara. From Dharwar, the Collector
represented its prevalence to the then Acting Superintendent, Dr. Pitman, who, in
consequence of epidemic small-pox raging at the same time in Canara and Beedee,
where the Vaccinators were fully employed, was prevented despatching Vaccinators to
the infected localities as quickly as otherwise would have been the case. The epi-
demic was not of long duration, nor has the mortality been reported as any way severe.
In inspecting a village of the Kolapore State I found a sporadic case of small-pox
of the 15th day's duration in a child aged about 18 months. There were two other
children in the same house who had been recently vaccinated, as well as others in the
adjoining houses to these. At the time of my visit the disease had not extended.
The inhabitants of the village, noting the circumstance, were so struck with the benefit
of the prophylactic, that they eagerly offered their children for operation, but in other
neighbouring villages little work had been done. Considering this a good opportunity
of actively interesting the heads of the village, and others in the work, I endeavoured
to show them how much assistance they might render to their neighbouring villagers
by showing them the efficacy of vaccination, an instance of which, it is scarcely too
much to say, they had just witnessed.
11. In commencing my tour I bore in mind the districts that had been more par-
ticularly reported as being infected with small-pox of a severe form, and to these I
repaired. In November I visited nearly all the talookas of the Dharwar Collectorate,
from whence reports of variola had been received. Having inspected the vaccinations
in Kuljhutjee, and parts adjoining, where the people appeared anxious for vaccination,
I proceeded to Hooblee, and on to Gudduck, examining several villages on the road,
in which the state of vaccination could not be worse. Very few children had been
vaccinated, merely a small minority, and those that were, I was unable in most of the
villages to get collected for inspection, though orders had been sent the day previously,
so that I could not test any returns. I have represented this to the Collector, with