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has made in one taluka of the Dharwad district, viz., Hangal taluka, where a
late district officer, Mr. Middleton, I know interested himself with the state and
progress of vaccination in Ron and Dambal. The vaccinator of Hangal, Man¬
narswami, has this year vaccinated 2,706 persons. He was the previous year in
the Ron táluká where he did only 231 vaccinations. This year in Ron the
vaccinator, Girmalappa, has vaccinated 695, an increase certainly, but very little
really. In the Hangal táluká, Mr. Middleton, as I myself am aware, fined some
village officers who neglected to aid the vaccinator and warned others. The
consequence was, as I personally saw, that as a rule the vaccinator had no
difficulty whatever worthy of mentioning. Mr. Stewart has followed a similar
course with the most beneficial results and the mamlutdar, Mr. Gururao Raghvend.
gives active and ready assistance at all times. I wish I could say as much with
regard to the mamlutdars of Ron and Dambal, viz., Messrs. Bhagwant Rao and
Bittu bin Maji. Mr. Robertson, however, disapproves of these measures, I
believe, and though he informed me in October last, that he had issued strict
orders to the mamlutdars, that all cases of neglect on the part of village officers
should be severely dealt with, yet when I visited the Dharwad district, more than
once I had occasion to report village officers for neglect. and inattention to my
own notices to collect vaccinated persons for inspection and to bring their
registers to my camp for inspection and signature ; very little notice, if any,
appears to have been taken of such conduct, nor have I as yet—now some three
months since—been informed of any action having been taken regarding such
reports. I certainly have more difficulty in the Dharwad district than any other
of this circle.
Progress in Kanada zilha.
9. In the Kanada collectorate there have been 10 vaccinators during the year,
but there has been a good deal of sickness among them,
and four have been dismissed for inefficiency and other
causes. There is always a good deal of sickness in this district, so that it is diffi-
cult to keep up the full complement of vaccinators throughout a year ; and though
the population is not so great as it is in other collectorates, still more vaccinators
are required in proportion, because of the insalubrity of the climate. Various
changes on this account have been recommended and are under consideration
which will be noticed further on. The total number of vaccinations during the
year is 15,789 which compared with the previous year gives an increase of 2,943.
The low percentage of successful is chiefly due to the bad work of the Bhatkal
vaccinator, who was dismissed by the Superintendent General, when he was in
this district, near the end of the year. The Hapur vaccinator, Ramiah Baduth, on
my visit in February, I found totally unfit for the duties of an itinerant vacci-
nator. He was appointed in 1872 by the acting Superintendent General of Vac-
cination. The Superintendent General who joined me at Sircy in February and
saw him concurred in the advisability of his discharge but he has been allowed to
continue pending the appointment of his successor, whom, on account of the pecu¬
larities of this district, we are endeavouring to select from the inhabitants of the
district itself. Dr. Pinkerton travelled with me throughout the greater part of
the Kanada district, and is now well acquainted with the exceptional nature of its
requirements. In October 1873, the collector, Mr. Macdonald, on account of the
prevalence of small-pox in the Supa petha, appointed an extra vaccinator, who has
done very good service up to the end of the official year, but I regret to say, he has,
about the end of the year, been incapacitated by sickness. Last year several per-
sons died of small-pox here which appears to have made the people flock to the
vaccinator en masse, and he has vaccinated whole villages both old and young.
Such a thing I have never witnessed in any part of this circle before, and I attri-
bute it in no small measure to the exertions of Mr. Macdonald, seconded by the
mahalkari, Mr. Ramkrishnapa. This collectorate has not been visited by any
superintendent since I was here in 1869, so that it can hardly be wondered at if
the vaccinator's books and records should not have been found in as good a con-
dition as they should be, and probably the fact of the assistant superintendent not
having been brought in contact with the superintendent may account for his