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and they object to the Vaccinators of other Chiefs coming to their villages, for fear
that in the event of the Chief who entertains the Vaccinators laying claim to a part or
the whole of the village, the very act of the Vaccinator going there and vaccinating
would, help to. prove the claim. This is one great reason that prevents an equal distri-
bution of labour. The second reason is this: (but I must first go back a few years :)
When I came to Kattiawar it was the custom, on a vacancy occurring, that the Super-
intendent of Vaccination should appoint the Vaccinator, independent of the Durbar or
Chief to whom he was then sent. I found this did not work ; numerous complaints
came in from the Assistant Vaccinators that the village people would not supply them
with food, or assist them. At last I had to report the circumstance to the Political
Agent, who, in the end, had to fine the village ; but all to no purpose. I then pro-
posed that the system should be changed. Every Durbar should send their own men,
and if approved of by the Superintendent of Vaccination in respect to health, knowledge
of writing, reading, and keeping records, and after being properly instructed in their
vaccination duties, they should be appointed ; this plan answered the purpose for
which it was intended, but from it arose one great evil, the Assistant Vaccinators spent
most of their time about the villages near their own homes ; in spite of this the new
system was a great improvement on the former, for now work was done much better than
before. Besides, the Chiefs immediately began to increase the number of their Vacci-
nators. 2nd reason—the Chiefs will not agree to allow their own Vaccinators to leave
their own talookas, for if they did, the Vaccinators would meet with the same difficulty
they had to contend with under the former system.
2. Two other systems have been submitted for the approval of former Political
Agents, one that all the Chiefs should subscribe to a fund, to be called the " Vaccinator's
Fund ;" that as many Assistant Vaccinators as the Superintendent considered necessary
should be employed, and that Kattiawar should be divided equally among them. The
other system proposed was that the Assistant Vaccinators should all be considered Go-
vernment servants, and paid by the civil authorities, the amount of their salaries to be
recovered from the Chiefs. These systems under the present state of things in Kattia-
war were pronounced impracticable. Vaccination in Kattiawar is not compulsory,
and it was only established in 1857. The number of people operated on in 1867 was
nearly 41,000, the population, according to the last census, was estimated at 1,880,240 ;
this shows a very high percentage. Kattiawar is very thinly inhabited, and the vil-
lages, for the most part, are very small and far apart. One day I visited a village in
which there were only seven children, and the day before I visited one in which there
were only two ; such being the state of the villages in Kattiawar, they require more men
in proportion to carry on vaccination than those in the Central Circle, or in Sind, *
where it is well known the population is large in the towns and villages. Another
account of the misunderstanding between a Chief and his feudatory. A case has just
* This is incorrect; the villages in Sind are generally very small.