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torate. The remaining five have all been on duty throughout the year and have
generally performed their duties most satisfactorily. For zeal, intelligence, and
tact Messrs. Balkrishna Rájárám, Trimbak Anant, and Ràmji Khanderao have
been distinguished and have in a very satisfactory manner seconded my efforts,
and carried out my orders. They have all worked hard and done what they could
to promote good vaccination and to extend the prophylactic wherever it was found
backward or deficient. In testing returns, preserving and distributing good lymph
and generally in raising the status of the vaccinators they have performed their
duties in a very praiseworthy manner. It was at first thought that sudden eleva-
tion from small to comparatively large pay might tend to make these men rather
harsh in their bearing towards those under them. That such has not been the
case in any of the assistant superintendents of this circle I feel perfectly sure.
They have acted in all cases with patience, kindness, and forbearance, yet with
firmness.
They have been thoroughly truthful, honest and straightforward; not
scrupling to bring to notice even the smallest mistakes of the vaccinators, but not
forgetting to mention their good qualities also. I have had frequent opportunities
of personally testing the truthfulness and exactness of their reports and have never
found them otherwise than correct.
Tour.
16. On the 1st April 1873 the office was in Khándesh and thence Dr. Robb
proceeded through the Násik district in the following
month. In October I examined a few villages in
Haweli táluká and on the 3rd November proceeded through Haweli and Sirur
tálukás to the Ahmadnágar district in company with the Superintendent General.
Work of the Haweli vaccinator excellent, that of the Sirur vaccinator the very
reverse. From Sirur we went through the Párner táluká to Nagar. In Párner
the work was good but very small in amount, and as a large number of villages
remained unvisited and the vaccinator was and had been conducting himself very
irregularly, I asked the Superintendent General to remove him, which was
done and the municipal vaccinator of Ahmadnagar appointed in his place.
At Nagar we inspected the work of the táluká and municipal vaccinators
and found it very satisfactory. From Nagar we went to the Newasa taluka
and thence to the Siogaon taluka. In the latter vaccination was not pro-
gressing satisfactorily and as the vaccinator wished to resign his appointment,
he was discharged. In Newásá Vithu Bhikáji was doing very fair work but
not going over his district so regularly as is desirable. This fault is not a
very rare one and the wonder is that it is not more frequent, for the men are
without maps. Every vaccinator should be supplied with a map of his district.
Without them they can not be expected to go over the villages regularly. From
Newásá I proceeded through the tálukás of Rahuri, Kopargaon and Sangamner.
In Rahuri everything was satisfactory. When in this táluká I tested lymph re-
ceived from England through the Superintendent General of Vaccination. It
resulted successfully and was propagated and distributed in tubes throughout the
circle and to several medical officers beyond the circle limits. In Kopargaon taluka
matters were not so satisfactory, but the fault was not entirely the vaccinator's.
In many villages the village officers (I know from personal experience) give less
assistance than elsewhere. The work of the vaccinator was middling and his
lymph inferior. He was at once ordered to discontinue the latter and was sup-
plied afresh from the Rahuri táluká. In Sangamner táluká the vaccinator was
actively and successfully pursuing his duties, but had difficulties to contend with
—not the least being the absence of kulkarnis from their villages, for these men
in this táluká seldom ever live in the villages of which they are kulkarnis. The
town and dispensary of Sangamner were next inspected and though here arrange-
ments should be best, they were worst. For want of intelligence I have seldom
met the equal of the kulkarni of Sangamner. At the dispensary very little vaccin-
ation had been done by the former hospital assistant and as for the one now in
charge he, until my visit, had never in his life vaccinated a single child. I re-
ported the matter to the Superintendent General and suggested that assistant
superintendents of vaccination should be directed to inspect vaccination at dis-