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the superintendent the greatest useful assistance not only in inspecting vaccinators'
lymph and general work, but in seeing, on their repeated visits to each
vaccinator, that they are working regularly through their charge instead of
skipping from place to place and residing too long in one place. Regarding the
Kanada assistant superintendent, Dhankoti Dasrathi, I have previously referred
to him but may state again that I have not found him as active or attentive to
directions as he should be. I have had occasion to severely reprimand him and
he has been fined heavily by the Superintendent General. The Dharwad assist-
ant superintendent, Swamirao Rango, accompanied me for nearly two months
in his district, and I examined much of his old inspections which I found fairly
correct. He is not as active or quick in his inspections, in detecting inaccuracies
in returns, as I think a good assistant superintendent should be, and does not
appear to have that amount of tact which is desirable. The selection of assistant
superintendents in this circle from among the vaccinators will not in future be
difficult, as there are three men in the Dharwad zilla alone who would probably make
good assistant superintendents. These are Mannarswami, Girmalapa Virappa, and
Shaik Budan, though I should give a decided preference to the first named,
who was not promoted before, on account of his being so short a time in the
department.
False entries.
17. It is very rare that any false entries in returns are brought to light now
that the vaccinators' registers are subject to such
close scrutiny. None have been reported during
the year—the Baura case before alluded to having been brought to light previous
to the termination of the year 1872-73. In my inspections, though I have paid
a great deal of attention to it, I have not discovered a single false name. In
some places so many children are called by similar names that, it is sometimes
difficult to correctly call them over, and the villagers themselves confound one
child with another, so that, on a reported false case, unless the most careful and
rigid investigation is made, especially in the jungle villages of Kanada, an innocent
man may be very liable to be made a sufferer. Such a case was reported by an assis-
tant collector of Kanada who requested that the vaccinator might be dismissed,
which I refused, pending a personal enquiry. It had reference to the Halial taluka
which I have lately visited, and I find that the vaccinated persons entered in the
register are correct, but that they were entered on the wrong dates—the entries
in the village register being for one month, in the vaccinator's for the other. This
occurred from the vaccinator closing his monthly return before the expiration of the
month.
Pay of native states' vaccina-
tors Kolhapur.
18. In 1869 Colonel Anderson, the political agent Kolhapur, on my repre-
sentation raised the pay of most of the vaccinators in
the Kolhapur state, and I made out a gradation scatle
which through some oversight was not adhered to
during the time I was on leave. Certain changes having taken place in the
Kolhapur district, I again addressed Colonel Anderson on the subject, submitting
a scale of pay for the Kolhapur and Chiefs' vaccinators generally, which I
recommended to be introduced. I also requested that permanent peons might,
as far as practicable, be attached to all vaccinators, at a fixed rate of salary.
The former, with immaterial exceptions, met with Colonel Anderson's approval
and sanction so far as his control extended, so that, there is now little matter of
complaint as far as pay goes. A representation was also made to the Native
Chiefs, some of whose vaccinators, it seems, are paid partly in land, the real value
of which it is difficult to estimate—so that the Chief of Kurandwad did not
seem inclined to increase his vaccinators' pay at present, especially as there
are two. The Jamkhandi Chief acceeded to the recommendation in toto so there
will be no excuse for his vaccinators doing little work. They each receive Rs. 14
per mensem and Rs. 7 each for a peon. The Sangli Chief's vaccinators receive
horse allowance, so also does the Ramdurg vaccinator, these Chiefs therefore con-
sidered that sufficient. especially as the former has appointed extra vaccinators for
outlying districts. A similar reason was given by the Chief of Miraj. In nearly