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habit up to June of last year of receiving aid from police authorities when sought
for under difficulties, and I have often had to thank their assistance for the recep-
tion of vaccination amongst communities of that district when other means
failed to induce them to accept of it. About this time however Captain Payne,
then acting superintendent of police in Kolába, seemed to think it no part of the
duty of the police to give any assistance in the endeavour to protect the people
from small-pox, and so issued instructions to his subordinates that they were for
the future to forego the countenance they hitherto gave to vaccination. I was
made acquainted with this fact by a communication from Captain Payne to the
address of the Collector, Mr. Ovans, which was forwarded to me for perusal and
remark by the latter. Neither the circumstance nor the communication seem to me
however worthy of further remark in this report.
Tour.
14. At the opening of the official year I was in the táluká of Murbád where
I examined the work of Jairám Rághú. I found it
somewhat indifferent, and a testing of his register
showed a good many errors more particularly in the result columns. Leaving this
I proceeded to Shápur in which táluká I inspected the work and compared registers
in 19 villages. The vaccinator's work was good and his register correct, but the
village registers kept by the talátís were far from satisfactory. I next went to
the Wádá táluká, with the work, &c. in which I was not at all pleased, and having
pointed out means for improvement I passed on to the native state of Jawár.
With the work here I was very well satisfied. I found no village vaccination
registers were kept and on representing the fact to Mr. Robertson, the political
agent, he ordered them to be undertaken by the talátís. In the beginning of
May I left Jawár and travelled toward Dahámi inspecting the villages on either
side of the way. The work was not altogether satisfactory, and as a result of
my visit the vaccinator who was growing old and was of long service was recom-
mended for pension which he has since obtained. From here I went to Máhim
where I saw the work both of the táluká vaccinator and the dispensary, and wound
up the month in the Bassein táluká examining the vaccinator's work, comparing
the registers, &c. In June I took the office into Tháná and on the 4th of July I
went on three months' privilege leave. On my return in October, I commenced
the season on the 16th of that month by inspecting the work of the Salsette
vaccinator in the neighbourhood of Ghorebandar, whence, having satisfied myself
about it, I proceeded to Uran and saw the work of the municipal vaccinator and
the dispensary with which I was satisfied,—and ended the month in Panwel examin-
ing the work of Bápu Bhikáji, with which I had every reason to be dissatisfied
and I am happy to say the man has since resigned the service thereby saving me
the necessity of recommending his dismissal. In the beginning of November I
remained at Panwel to see how a young vaccinator, not long appointed, would
carry on work, and for this purpose went with him to several villages and saw it
fairly started. The remainder of this month I was occupied in examining the
work of both the vaccinator and dispensary at Bhiwandi. After this Shahpur,
and then, in travelling on to the Násik collectorate, Sinnar táluká, where I reached
about the 1st December, and was joined by the Superintendent General of Vacci-
nation. In December, I examined the Sinnar vaccinator's work which, was not at
all good. Being a hand of some experience he should have done much
better and was consequently heavily fined. A dispensary was recently opened
at which I started vaccination. Leaving Sinnar we proceeded to the Sáwar¬
gáon táluká, where I found the work so-so, and the vaccinator scarcely to
be relied upon. The dispensary work at Iolí was somewhat better, but the
native doctor in charge of it, did not appear to be very bright, and seemed
to have a hazy idea as to what was meant by a primary and what by a
re-vaccination. Leaving this we went on to the Nándgáon táluká, thence to
Chálisgáon, Pachorá, reaching Sendurni, Jámner táluká by the 1st January
1874. The work in Nándgaon was fair ; that at Chálisgáon good, and at
Páchorá indifferent. The latter is a young vaccinator who lacks experience