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tors requires more than a passing notice, under, as they are, the able and active control
of the Deputy Collector, Sattara. These Vaccinators are paid out of the combined
Municipalities' funds, each town or village of any size contributing its item to the
general fund; they have consequently a kind of claim on the services of the Vaccina¬
tor, and it is most satisfactory to be able to state that, as far as I have been able to judge,
they look after the Vaccinator's returns so minutely that they refuse not infrequently
to pay him, till they receive the confirmation. I explained to many of them that I did
not wish in the slightest degree to test work more than to see that it was satisfactory,
and informed them that I implicitly relied on them for this part; but in many places
an anxiety was evinced that I should thoroughly test the correctness of the returns.
They in fact appeared proud of having a Vaccinator, whom they could in some sense
call their own ; and in Dehwarree complained that they could not have another, as one
was insufficient for the two talookas; and I am now able to state that another
Vaccinator is to be appointed permanently in those talookas. In the town of Mahi¬
mangurh, where formerly considerable opposition was experienced, the natives were so
pleased with their Vaccinator's work (having as they said freed the town of small-pox)
that they gave me a petition to the effect that, if I was satisfied
with his work, they
were willing, as his pay was so small, Rs. 15 per month, to increase it to Rs. 20.
I have forwarded the petition, with my recommendation, to the Collector, but the
Deputy Collector informs me he fears the funds will not as yet permit of this increase.
Subsequently I inspected the work of the Phulton and Bhore Jagheer Vaccinators, both
of whose lymph was so deteriorated that I at once ordered them, through the karbarree,
to suspend work, and directed them to procure lymph from the Koregaon Vaccinator,
who was working near those Jagheers, and whose lymph I had only a few days previ-
ously examined in all its stages. Reviewing then this statement of my tour, it will be
observed, that in many parts the greatest obstacles, almost insurmountable, to the diffu-
sion of vaccination are encountered, not only by a Vaccinator, but frequently by a Super-
intendent himself, and from many villages supplies of food even are with difficulty ob-
tained, so much so as occasionally to necessitate a reference to the authorities. In how
far the increase of vaccination is brought about by the countenance or otherwise afforded
by the authorities, especially Europeans, in a district, is a question to be somewhat
considered ; and the good effects resulting from an official authority interesting himself
in the work is witnessed in the parts of the Sattara Collectorate, above referred to.
In one or two places in the Sattara Collectorate, Kodowree and Mahimangurh, for
example, I inquired how it happened that in these towns, where formerly no Vaccina-
tor had been able to make progress, so little opposition was now experienced ; they
replied that the Assistant Collectors and others when visiting the districts, had invari-
ably instituted inquiries about the Vaccinator's work, and the Deputy Collector had
in one village himself tested the accuracy of the returns of the Vaccinator only a few
days before my arrival; and they added, we now see the good effects arising from vac-
cination. In the Sattara Collectorate I have met with little difficulty, as a rule, in
getting children collected in the different villages for inspection.