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" Vaccination by this means has not yet been commenced. On receipt of the Go-
vernment Resolution on vaccination for the year 1867, I at once put myself in com-
munication with Collectors of the several Zillas. The Collector of Poona informed
me that Rupees 720 had been included in the Budget for 1869-70 for vaccination.
Replies from the other Collectors had not been received when I gave over charge of
the Circle to Dr. Miller, 4th Rifles, on the 21st November.
" 8. The office of the Superintendent was stationary in Poona for some months
(during my absence in Abyssinia), in charge of Assistant Surgeon Langley, 24th Re-
giment N. I. I re-assumed charge on the 1st July. In the month of August I travel-
led to Sassoor, and examined the work (recent and fresh) of (General No. 37) Wamon
Keshew, employed in the Poorundhur talooka, and also tested some lymph received
from the Superintendent General on ivory points. The work of the Vaccinator was
satisfactory in every respect. His lymph was good and active, lymph that had been
received from England but a few months before my visit. The lymph received on
ivory points was tested most carefully, and found quite inert.
" I returned to Poona, and in October I visited and inspected the work of (Gene-
ral No. 40) Keshew Sudeshwur, in and around Loonekund, in the Havilee talooka,
near Poona, and in the end of October having despatched my kit previously, I left by
train for the Sholapore districts. I inspected old work of (General No. 23) and made
arrangements to enable (General No. 144) Mankoo Gunajee, to commence operations
in Marheh talooka. I found the people very ignorant of vaccination, and the village
officers rendered me the least amount of assistance possible. From the Marheh talooka
I proceeded to Barsee, in the town and talooka of which little or no work had ever been
done. With regard to the town, its Municipality employs a Vaccinator, and vaccine
operations are also carried on, but to a very limited extent, by the Hospital Assistant
in charge of the Dispensary. I minutely examined the work of these men, and found
that of the Vaccinator satisfactory and his records correct. But the amount of work
done was very small. The records of the Hospital were very incorrect, and I found
that the Hospital Assistant was not an efficient Vaccinator. I instructed him, and it is
to be hoped he will conduct his duties with more success, and with greater care, in the
future. On inquiry I found that neither the Municipality, the Mamlutdar, nor the Pa¬
tells and Koolkurnees had taken the slightest interest in vaccination, and that none of
them had paid any attention to the representations, written and oral, made by the Vacci-
nator ; in fact that the Vaccinator was trying to fight the battle single-handed. I, during
my necessarily short stay, endeavoured to remove all this, as well as the apathy and in-
difference of the people. I held open air meetings in different parts of the town at
which, as I always do, I read Government zahirnamas on vaccination, and explained to
the people the benefit to be derived from successful vaccination. I had also a meeting
with the Municipal Commissioners, who, at my suggestion, raised the pay of their
Vaccinator from rupees 12 to rupees 15 per month, and gave him a permanent Peon to