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Tour.
9. I left camp on the 1st October and commenced my tour by visiting
Gondal, on account of the assistant political agent
having complained of the vaccinator not doing his
work efficiently. The man does not do as much work as he might, he being
old and in bad health. Besides, his charge is too large. Not that he has too
many villages but many of them are very populous. From Gondal I travelled
direct to Ahmadábád to take over the new addition to my charge. On my route
I visited the Wákáner man's work, which was good, but the cicatrices small; he
had made the punctures so close together that in many cases they had become
confluent. From Wákáner táluká I passed on and examined the Sáelá man's
work which, was very good; he complained of not having enough to do, so I gave
him temporary charge of twelve villages belonging to the Wadwán man that had
not seen a vaccinator for two years. About the middle of the month I passed
through the confines of the Dhrángdrá táluká and examined the vaccinator's
work; it was good, but there were many villages with unprotected children.
From Dhrángdrá I proceeded to Wadwan ; this man's work was good, but he
had neglected to visit many of his villages. Early in November I inspected the
Lakhtar man's work—the marks on the children were unsatisfactory. From
Wadwán I procceded to Limdi—the work in this táluká was good, most of the
children had six good cicatrices. Thence I proceeded to the Veramgaon
táluká. Some
of the villages had not been visited for four years.
The dheds and bhangis had not been vaccinated, most of the children
were unprotected or had marks of small-pox. The vaccinator was on leave.
In the month of December from.. Veramgáon I went to the Sánand táluká ;
hero the work was good. The old and good work was done by a former vaccina-
tor, the present man's work is disgraceful, the man is only fit for invaliding.
Next I travelled through the Daskroi táluká. The work here was small in
quantity and bad in quality. The present man had only lately arrived and
attributed the number of unprotected children to the la iness of his predecessor,
who is now at Prántej. From Daskroi I went to the southern part of Prántej
where the state of things was equally bad. In January I visited the Dholká and
Dhandnká tálukás—the work in both was good, and there were very few unpro-
tected children in Dholká táluká ; but in that of Dhanduká there were many
unprotected, which was, the fault of the late vaccinator who was lazy and sickly.
There were many cases of small-pox in this táluká. From Dhandnká I went to
Ránpur, here there were many unprotected children but no small-pox. The late
man had allowed his work to fall into arrears. From Ránpur I re-entered the
province of Kathewád by Botád táluká; here I found Tulsi Gigá working with a
will. The inhabitants had presented him with a testimonial signed by many
hundred inhabitants. In the month of February from Botád I travelled through
Jasdan ;—here also I found good work being done—then on into the Rájkot táluká
where Khusál's work was good and there were very few unprotected children ; but
the villages in Motilal's charge did not show so well, although an improvement
had taken place since last year. On the 1st of March I proceeded to Chotilá ;
the vesicles and lymph were very good and characteristic. From Chotilá through
the Rájkot táluká to Jaitpur. The work done by the Jaitpur vaccinator in the
early part of the year was much greater than that done by any other vaccinator
and it appears to have been good work. From Jaitpur I travelled through
Wallá, here the work was good, but the vaccinator had not visited his outlying
villages. He was fined for this last year and will be again from this month's pay.
I also examined Palitáná villages, in which the work was very good. The Shehor
villages had not been visited by a vaccinator for a year. From Palitáná and
Shehor I proceeded to the Gogo táluká, all the children appeared to be protected
by vaccination in the villages I visited ; work was very good. In April and
May I travelled along the south-west and west of Kathewád, and examined the
work done in the Bhánwád, Khambáliá, Jamnagar, Judia and Dharol tálukás.
The work done in the first was good, but there were a large number of unprotect-
ed childern. In Khambáliá the work was badly done and the man had been