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all the states permanent peons have been granted at salaries ranging from Rs. 5
to Rs. 7. On the whole the response of the Chiefs has been satisfactory and en-
couraging. The Miraj vaccinators (senior branch) are paid rather low, Rs. 12
and 10 per mensem. As one of these men has been in the department many years
I regret that the Chief did not see fit to allow him some little extra reward for
his services.
Inoculation.
No reports of the practice of inoculation have been
made to me during the year.
Tour.
20. As regards my tour there is little more to add to what I have already
mentioned in the different paragraphs referring to collectorates and native states.
The particulars will be observed in statement No. VII.
I may merely state that in March 1873, near the end
of the official year, I resumed charge from Surgeon-Major Lewis. I shortly after
travelled to the Kolhapur district. I returned to Belgaum for the monsoon, after
which, in November, I was detained three weeks near Belgaum, waiting for an
examination committee to examine me in Mahrathi ; which I passed. This pre-
vented my going over all the talukas of the Dharwad collectorate as I had intend-
ed, however I managed to see all the vaccinators about their returns, books, &c.
Most of my attention has been devoted to Kanada. To sum up briefly I may
state that during the year I have visited and inspected 246 towns and villages,
inspected 9,738 vaccinated children—the greatest number that has ever yet been
seen by a superintendent of this circle in any one year and travelled 1,488 miles.
The inspection of children in many talukas of this circle is a matter of much diffi¬
culty. I have frequently been able in one day to see 200 or 300 cases in one village
whereas in another I may travel miles, visit 3 or 4 villages and not be able to ins-
p ect 50 cases. In Kanada, on parts of the coast, without any trouble whatever,
have inspected, in an hour or so, 200 persons calling the names from the register.
In Dharwad I may go to village after village, and, find no notice paid to my
order, on arrival. In the town of Dharwad itself, I waited three days before I
could get any children collected for inspection, and then had to write to the
deputy collector in charge before I could get any thing done.
Assistant superintendent's
inspections.
21. The total number of villages visited by the five assistant superintendents
is 1,719 and the number of vaccinated persons called
from the registers by them is 39,572 which plus those
I inspected and which had not been previously inspected
by the assistant superintendents 8,029—gives a total of 47,601 or nearly half the
number of persons vaccinated in this circle during the past year.
22. The work of assistant superintendents and the time of each on duty in
his district is shown in the following table:—
Assistant superintendents.
Balwantrao Ganesh
Swamirao Rango
Dhankoti Dasrathi
Dattu Balappa
Kamachandra Balaji
Number of encamp-
ments.
114
172
125
135
88
Number of travelling
days.
196
194
282
217
201
Number of miles tra¬
velled.
1,609
2,074
2,030
l,819
1,573
Number of villages
visited.
274
468
286
410
281
Number of vaccinat-
ed children seen.
5,834
8,645
7,461
9,043
8,589
Number of months
on duty.
7
10
11 ½
10
7