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what result I am, as yet, unacquainted. At Gudduck I found matters in an extremely
unsatisfactory condition. The Municipal Vaccinator was doing little or no work. In
Betgherree, a large town near Gudduck, affairs were still worse, as regards vaccination.
On the morning after my arrival I had appointed to inspect children in Betgherree.
On my road I was told it was no use going there, as no children had been collected,
nor would the people consent to vaccination. These two places, it is necessary to men-
tion, are the great centres of small-pox, especially Betgherree, one or the other is sel-
dom free of the- disease, frequently it rages in an epidemic form, and from whence I
am informed it spreads throughout the talookas. On inquiry into this state of things,
I found, as had been represented to me, that the Vaccinator was irregularly paid, occa-
sionally being kept in arrears for over three months, and, as he said, he was not sure
that he should be paid at all. The Municipality promised amendment, and I was led
to believe such would not again occur but up to the date of this report, notwithstand-
ing my representations to the Collector, it still obtains. From Gudduck I proceed-
ed to Dumbull, into which vaccination had never been successfully introduced, and it
was with considerable difficulty I could procure a few children for vaccination, so as to
make a commencement. I have since been informed that the natives do not so much
object now; their objection at first arising principally, as I conjectured, from fear.
Next I travelled to Roan, into which a Vaccinator had also never made his appearance
with any degree of success, and the natives plainly admitted they had no desire
that he should. The Gokak Mamlutdar, with whom I had before come in
contact, happened to be temporarily in charge here, and he readily promised his assist-
ance to the Vaccinator, whom I subsequently ordered to proceed there. From this
I traversed the talooka of Nowlgoond and Nurgoond, back to Dharwar. From thence
through parts of Beedee, on to Chickoree and Baghwanee, in the Kolapore State, and,
with the exception of Baghwanee, there is little more than ordinary deserving of
mention. Having previously heard of the. opposition I should be likely to meet at
Baghwanee, the talooka Vaccinator was ordered to accompany me. At first I could not
obtain a single child for operation, but after some explanation, ten presented themselves,
and were vaccinated. At the end of the year I was at Kolapore, and had inspected
the work of 14 Vaccinators, most of whose lymph was very good. The Meeruz
Vaccinator, employed by " Anna Sahib," was working with lymph of a very suspicious
character. The vesicles were small and ill-formed, and the average success of his
operations very small. After examining the work of the Sanglee Vaccinator, in whose
returns I found two names had been entered as successful, which in reality were not
so, the vesicles had not even risen, as the phrase is ; I represented this to the Political
Agent.
I desired the Meeruz Vaccinator, abovementioned, to accompany me to
Tasgaon, and take lymph from (General No. 88) Trimbuck Annunt, on whose lymph,
as I had anticipated, I could rely. I also saw that this Vaccinator wasconversant with
the manner of charging tubes. From thence I traversed the talookas of Khanapoor, Kore¬
gaum, Khatan, and Moon, of the Sattara district, inspecting and examining the work
of the Municipal and other Vaccinators. Here the subject of the Municipal Vaccina¬