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free from small-pox. On these days they do not partake of any newly cooked article,
but live on sweetmeats or other articles prepared on a previous day. Notwith-
standing all this, if their children happen to be attacked with small-pox, they
again, on the 7th or 9th day of the attack, go to the goddess and perform the
above ceremonies. They have so much faith in her, that even after their child-
ren are vaccinated, on the 7th day they proceed and offer certain articles to her.
Such children as do not suffer from small-pox are considered under the protection
of the goddess rather than of vaccination. With such a firm belief in the deity
they treat vaccination with contempt and consider it as a curse rather than any
good. With such ignorance and apathy, the vaccinators find it very difficult to
get on : all sorts of devices are practised to escape vaccination. As soon as it
is known a vaccinator is going to a village, many will either lock up the doors
of their houses, giving one to understand that nobody is in the house, or conceal
their children in big earthern pots intended to hold grain, or in some cases they
run a way to some of their relations in a neighbouring village. This difficulty can
only be removed by one of the two following ways, by allowing them time to be-
---e more civilized and to see the advantages of vaccination or by making vacci-
nation compulsory.
12. The complaints from vaccinators were generally of two kinds : one was
about opposition to vaccination from the people, and the other about not getting
their allowances. Such complaints when received were brought either to the notice;
of the darbár or the Political Agent, according as the subject belonged to His High-
ness or to the Bháyáds. Orders were issued from one of the two sources, advising
the people to get their children vaccinated and that the vaccinators be paid their
allowances. In this way much valuable time was lost and in consequence of such
delays vaccinators often lost lymph which required to be re-supplied. All this was
attended with waste of time and as a natural result the progress of vaccination
was slow.
Salaries of vaccinators.
13. The vaccinators were paid regularly every month by His Highness accord-
ing to fixed rates. While they were travelling, they
were allowed a pony or camel, and a peon each. A
vaccinator, when he went out of Bhuj, was allowed to draw from the local funds
of each village Rs. 0-14-0 per day to cover his and his peon's batta, and pony
feeding, as long as he stopped there for the purposes of vaccination. This ar-
rangement formed one of the obstructions in the way of vaccination as described in
the last para. In order to remedy this, I have to bring the subject to His High-
ness' notice and suggest a different arrangement for the current year in the billow-
ing way, that instead of collecting funds at a time when a vaccinator is working
in a village, such funds should be collected from each village, in the beginning of
each year by durbar servants and that the vaccinator should be paid his travelling
allowances along with his pay by the darbár instead of by the kámdár or pátil of
each village. The same suggestion will he made to the political agent for making
a similar arrangement for the Bháyáds' vaccinators. When this difficulty is remov-
ed, the vaccinators will have only to contend with the religious prejudices and
ignorance of the mass of the people.
Animal vaccination.
14. In Novemher, while Surgeon R. M. Wall was in charge of a portion
of a native regiment here, he having had some
experience in animal vaccination, expressed his desire
to the Political Agent to introduce it into Bhuj. The latter wished me to arrange
for a calf, and accordingly the first heifer was inoculated on 19th November with
lymph obtained by Dr. Wall from Mr. Anantá Chandrobá, Bombay. Subsequent
to this inoculation of calves and vaccination of children were conjointly carried on
by Dr. Wall and me till loth January ; hut on his departure to Bombay shortly
after, the work was conducted by me. The result of the work for four and a half
months was that 22 calves were inoculated and 152 children vaccinated. Of (ho