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will be so too. If there be any cause not to be so, it is in the one matter of the
degeneration of the lymph during a small portion of the year, in parts of Drs.
Cola, Blomfield and Williams' circles; but these officers, with their usual
promptness, speedily replaced the less active lymph by pure vaccine virus.
Commendation of
superintendents.
42. It has been customary to commend two or three of the most
deserving officers of the department in the annual
report; but when all have done so well, it is very
difficult for me to perform this duty. However, as it
must be done, I would beg to commend to the favourable notice of Govern-
ment Drs. Williams and Cody; and I must not forget to notice the progress
which Dr. Raby has made in the Southern circle. I cannot close this
paragraph without noticing the long connection of Drs. Butler and Turnbull
with this department, which has been severed, for at least a time, and
probably, in both cases, permanently.
Dr. Butler in Kathewád and
Dr. Turnbull in the Central circle have earned reputations that will not be
soon forgotten in the vaccination department.
Total
number of
children inspected.
43. The assistant superintendents inspected the vaccinators' work mostly
by the best method of calling over the names of the
vaccinated children. They tested 267,239 nominal
entries in the vaccinators' registers. In no instance
in British territory were any falsifications detected.
Inspections 47 per cent.
of total operations.
44. The inspections of superintendents and assistant superintendents
combined numbered 341,844, or fully 47 per cent. of
the total operations of the year; and with the
exceptions of the few falsifications detected by
Dr. Blomfield in Kathewád and by Dr. Raby in one instance in Kolhapur
state, no falsifications were noticed. Falsifications cannot escape our testings ;
but it is very much more to our credit to prevent falsifications than to find
them out.
Conduct of the assis-
tant superintendents.
45. The assistant superintendents as a body have given great satis-
faction.
One, who was acting on probation in
Sindh circle, was found guilty of conniving at the
absence of one of his vaccinators from his taluka,
and was reverted to his former position of a vaccinator. Four of the best
of them having served 3 years in the lowest grade, and having given entire
satisfaction, were promoted to 2nd Class, and a fifth was also promoted on
1st May 1875. In my previous report it was stated that the only circle in
which the assistant superintendents did not give entire satisfaction, was
the Southern; but even there I am glad to be able to say that Dr. Raby in
his report says they have done better. Dr. Blomfield has had reason not
to be pleased with two of his assistants; one of whom he reports as wanting
in intelligence and inattentive to orders, and the other was fined a month's
pay for having taken a loan and supplies from one of his vaccinators. Both
these men are marked, and if it be necessary they will be degraded to the
position they formerly held before being appointed assistant superintendents.
46. Thus far I have reviewed the work of the department as a whole.
I will now briefly show the work done by the different circles, next by
establishments, and finally the progress made in each district of this Presi-
dency.