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The high average in Sindh is due to the very large number of re¬
vaccinations. Dr. Williams deserves great credit for having attained such a
very high average. The Western Gujarath, Central and Eastern Gujarath
circles have very good averages. Some improvement may be looked for in
the Western and Southern circles. Baroda circle has room for great ex-
tension. In the Presidency circle I can hardly promise a much higher num¬
ber of vaccinations than was reached in the year under report. In Kutch
there is room for so great an extension that one might truly say the vacci-
nator has hardly begun to work in Kutch.
Conduct of vaccinators.
62. The conduct of the vaccinators, as a body, has been, I think, un-
usually good. In the Presidency circle they " gene-
rally conducted themselves well." In the Central
circle the vaccinators have all behaved well. In the Western circle
" the general conduct of the vaccinators has been good, though there are still
" one or two men in Khandesh with whom I am far from satisfied." Dr. Cody
here alludes to the manner of working rather than to the personal character
of one or two of his men. Dr. Cola says that in Eastern Gujarath circle,
with a few exceptions, their general conduct was good, but during the year
he fined 15 vaccinators " chiefly for culpable negligence and working with
" bad lymph, &c." In the Western Gujarath circle Dr. Blomfield says : " I
" regret that I cannot report favourably of their conduct generally ; of the 27
" whose work I inspected, only seven or eight gave me full satisfaction. The
" principal faults were disobedience of orders, working with bad lymph,
" neglecting to report small-pox, and falsifying their register ; ten having
" been convicted of the last offence.
" One man was dismissed, and four suspended for a time.
" With a view of enforcing attention to my orders and the proper per¬
" formance of their duty generally, I inflicted fines for which there is
" in Kathewád a peculiar facility, as an extra Rs. 5 a month under the name
" of batta is granted by the Chiefs to those of the vaccinators whose conduct
" has satisfied the superintendent during the past six months; the batta
" being paid at that interval."
It appears to me to be utterly wrong to merely fine a vaccinator for
falsifying. It is a crime, and if a vaccinator be not prosecuted for the
crime, he should certainly be dismissed the service. I hold that no superin¬
tendent ought to condone a crime by a fine. Falsification no longer dis-
graces the department in British territory, and it ought to be wiped out of
native states too. With a view to this I directed Dr. Blomfield to issue a
circular for the purpose of informing all the Chiefs' vaccinators in Kathewád,
that any one found falsifying his register will be either prosecuted or dis-
missed the service. Dr. Blanc and Colonel Anderson achieved a great deal
when they got the Chiefs to subscribe to a vaccination fund; and now I
think we are bound to see that the vaccinators paid from that fund shall
not give false returns. Dr. Williams says of the vaccinators in his circle :—
" Taking the whole establishment, I cannot refrain from giving them the
" greatest praise for the very hard work they have performed."
The following shows the casualities of the year :—
Vaccinators.
Died... ... ...
Dismissed ... ...
Resigned and discharged
Pensioned ... ...
Municipal.
0
0
0
0
Local Funds.
... 1
... 6
... 6
...0
Native States.
2
4
1
0