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intendent. I have much pleasure in reporting that Surgeon Raby passed in
Maráthí on 21st November last and Surgeon Major Turnbull in March last;
Surgeon Williams, superintendent of the Sindh circle, passed the higher
standard in Sindhi some years ago ; Dr. Colá in the Estern Gujaráth circle
has not been required to pass, as Gujaráthi is his mother tongue (Government
Resolution No. 555 dated 24th February 1874); Surgeon Cody, superinten-
dent of the Western circle, has applied for a committee to examine him.*
There only remains Surgeon Blomfield, acting superintendent in the Wes-
tern Gujaráth circle, and he intends to pass in Gujaráthi, at the end of this
rainy season.
Inspection of vaccinated children.
47. During the year the superintendents inspected 92,976 vaccinated
children in 2,369 villages or towns and
the assistant superintendents inspected
217,269 vaccinated children in 10,745
villages or towns ; total inspected 310,245 vaccinated children in 13,114
villages or towns. We have no inspection returns from Presidency, Barodá
and Kutch circles ;but as far as the Presidency circle is concerned, most of the
vaccinated children are seen by the superintendent and the head vaccinator,
so 11,814 should be added to the above total. I cannot say that there is
any real inspection test in either of the native states of Barodá or Kutch:
but the army vaccinations are seen by medical officers in charge of regiments
and station staff, so that if we add the army returns we get a grand total
of no less than 331,151 persons whose vaccinations were inspected. This
is more than 50 per cent. of the total number of persons operated on, which
is ample to test the quality of the vaccinations and the truthfulness of the
returns.
Tour.
48. I returned from England on the 5th August after a two years'
furlough and took over charge from Dr. Turn-
bull, (who acted for me during my leave,) on
the 7th idem in Bombay. I went to Puná on
the 18th and saw the vaccinators and their work there occasionally with the.
superintendent of the Central circle during the rains and also the practice of
animal vaccination as carried on by the late Assistant Surgeon .Bálkrishna Chin-
tobá at the Khan Bahadur Pestonjee Sorabjeo Dispensary in Poona and I also
saw the Hawelí táluká vaccinator's work, which was very good. In October
I met Surgeon Cody, superintendent of the Western circle, at Tháná. and
examined the work of the municipal vaccinator there and at Kolset bandar
and also the vaccinations performed at the dispensary in Tháná.. On the
1st November I started on the regular tour. In company with Dr.
Turnbull, the superintendent of the Central circle, I went through the
zilhás of Puná, and .Ahmednagar, and with Surgeon Cody through Násik
and Khándesh; then I turned south and marched through the zilhá of
Sátára, Kolhápur state, the zilhás of Belgaum, Dhárwád and joined Surgeon
Raby, the superintendent of the Southern circle in Kánada, and together
we went nearly over the whole of this zilhá. I returned to Bombay from
Kárwár on the 3rd April 1874. On my route I examined the birth, death
and vaccination registers in villages and the office records of superintendents,
assistant superintendents and the vaccinators' work as well as records. On
the whole I was well satisfied with the work of the vaccinators and the state
of their records. The vaccinators in Kanada had their registers in the old
form which was corrected.
He passed in Marathi on the 15th June 1874.
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