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He is devoted to his work and carries it on to my entire satisfaction. I did
not visit the Gujarath circles.
In my tour as officiating superintendent of vaccination of the Central
circle, I went through the zilhás of Poona, Sholapur, Satara, and Ratnagiri.
Ahmadnagar zilhá alone was not visited, but it was very carefully gone
over by Dr. Turnbull in the preceding year.
Tours of superintendents
of circles.
Dr. Raby's tour.
Dr. Cody's tour.
Dr. Cola's tour.
Dr. Blomfield's tour.
68. In my former reports I never said much about the tours made by
the superintendents of circles because generally the
tour or a resume of it was printed in each superin-
tendent's own report; but this year I must notice
this very important subject, as the superintendents' reports are not to
be printed. It would, however, make this part of my report too long were
I to extract the whole of the tours from all the superintendents' reports ;
I will therefore only take the pith of each. I have already given my own
tour in the capacity of superintendent of the Central circle. In the Southern
circle Dr. Raby visited all his collectorates except
Kanada, which he had just gone through at the end
of the preceding year. He visited and inspected the work of all the
Belgaum and Kaladgi vaccinators, most of the native states' vaccinators,
and some of the Dharwad and Kanada vaccinators. Dr. Cody says of his
tour :—-" I was altogether about seven months on tour, and during that time
" I visited each zilhá, and two out of the three native states. I saw the
" work in thirty tálukás and pethás besides in the
" native states of Jawár and Janjirá. I made during
" the seven months 78 encampments, had 134 travelling days, travelled 2,135
" miles, visited 371 villages and inspected 9,469 children, all of whose names
" were called from the register. Besides calling the names of the vaccinated
" children from the registers and examining their arms as they appear, I gene¬
" rally inspect in the village the births' and deaths' registers, make inquiries
" as to any prevailing diseases in the village, and usually advise the patel and
" the elders as to what they should do on the appearance of small-pox, and
" briefly explain the objects, &c., of vaccination." In the Eastern Gujarath
circle Dr. Cola sums up his tour by saying:—
" Thus the tour comprises travelling through all
" the tálukás of Surat and Khedá zilhás, all but one
" táluká of Broach zilhá, the whole of Mahi Kánthá and three out of the five
" tálukás of Panch Mahals. In all, the work of 30 vaccinators and 4 dispen¬
" saries was examined." In the Western Gujarath circle Dr. Blomfield says:—
" I took charge from Dr. Butler and commenced
" my tour in April at Gogo. I found the work of the
" district vaccinator satisfactory. This man's district
" comprises only the villages of the Gogo táluká, about sixty in number, and
" they are interspersed among those of the Bhownagar state, of which he could
" easily vaccinate an equal number, an arrangement however which would in¬
" terfere with the uniformity of the returns. At the Gogo dispensary the
" lymph was bad,and fresh was introduced from Ahmadabad, which the apothe¬
" cary informed me turned out well and a good number of children vaccinated.
" In Bhownagar town and district the work was good as far as it went; but a
" large number were found unprotected, and the vaccinator having disobeyed
" my orders by leaving the district where I directed him to vaccinate and re¬
" turning to Bhownagar under the pretence of sickness, was suspended for six
" months. I then passed along the south coast inspecting in succession the