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very unsatisfactory and I fear it must continue so until more vaccinators be
appointed. I have just had a letter No. 641, dated 11th May 1874, from Mr.
Grey in which he says " the local and municipal funds of this district cannot
" bear any further charges for vaccination, and the proposal to appoint more
" vaccinators cannot be entertained." I leave it for Government to say whe-
ther this shall be final or not. I will only add that, after having gone through
this collectorate last cold season, I am thoroughly convinced more vac-
cinators are necessary; but instead of getting more there is some talk of abo-
lishing the Gokák municipal vaccinator : if this be carried out there will be
only 9 vaccinators, each of whom will have an average population of 103,713
while the average for the whole presidency is about 64,300. These 9 vac-
cinators would require to vaccinate an average of 2,872 children per annum
to protect all, and last year the average in this zilhá was 1,501. Nothing I
could say would demonstrate the necessity for an increase of vaccinators
better than these figures do. Mr. Grey and his assistant collectors and dis-
trict deputy collector all recognize the want, and have expressed their opinions
that there should be, 4 vaccinators in Chikodi táluká and 2 in each of the ta-
lukas of Athni, Sampgaon and Parsgarh, and I think there should be two rural
vaccinators in each of the tálukás of Belgaum and Gokak, then the municipal
vaccinator of Gokak would not be required. Mr. Grey says in his letter to
me, No. 566 of 27th April 1874, para. 2—" I consider it desirable that the
" vaccination establishment should be increased to the extent proposed above,
"but at the same time, I could not recommend that any charge should fall
" either on the local or municipal funds." I had hoped I had things in train
to get an increase, but here comes Mr. Grey and relieves Mr. Boswell and
winds up the correspondence by saying there is no money for vaccination.
This is a most discouraging result to my correspondence and to the labor I
took to ascertain exactly what Belgáum requires. I still hope that some me-
thod may be found by Mr. Grey to give the necessary funds to bring the Bel-
gáum vaccination establishment up to the strength which he himself thinks
desirable.
Dhárwád collectorate.
63. The collectorate of Dhárwád contains 988,037 souls and its area
is 4,565 square miles. There were 13 vacci-
nators employed during the year, viz., 11 local
fund and 2 municipal. Another municipal vac-
cinator was appointed just at the close of the year for the town of Dhárwád.
Vaccination was also practised to a very small extent at the dispensary of
Hublí and in Dhárwád jail. There were altogether 16,569 persons prima-
rily vaccinated or 16.7 per mille of population. The percentage of success
was only 91.8. The revaccinations numbered only 36. The average number
of vaccinations to each vaccinator is 1,181. There are several tálukás of this
zilhá where there are some considerable difficulties. For instance, in Ráni-
badnur, where the vaccinator only vaccinated 424 persons and in Ron where
the vaccinator did 695 vaccinations. Mr. Robertson, the collector, has, I
know, taken much interest in the progress of vaccination for years back, in
proof of this I may mention that he was one of the first revenue officers who
suggested the propriety of supplementing the action of Government by aid
from local funds. It is difficult for me to understand how it is that, the
efforts of an able revenue officer like Mr. Robertson, should not be equal to
the overcoming of some trifling objections on the part of, I believe, the
lingayats of these two tálukás. However, I am glad to be able to say that
even in these some little progress has been made and time with the well