8
Tour.
18. Résumé of my tour.—On the 26th January 1869 I assumed charge from
Surgeon T. Miller, 4th Rifles, Sholapore. Having
inspected the work of General No. 301, and the
Municipal Vaccinator at Sholapore, I passed on to the native State of Aukulcotc.
Here I inspected the work and lymph of Damodur Rungnath ; he was doing well,
but complained of the want of lymph allowance : this has since been remedied. Pre-
vious to my visit no vaccination or small-pox registers were kept in the villages. I
pointed out this to the Mamlutdar, and the registers are now kept. Passing on to
the talooka of Indee and Beejapoor, in the Kulladghee Zillah, I inspected the work of
General Nos. 133 and 244, and of the Municipal Vaccinator at Beejapoor. With the
work of General No. 244 I was particularly well pleased. In the western part of the
Indee Talooka I saw many cases of confluent small-pox, and it was obvious, on looking
at the disfigured countenances of the children collected for my inspection, that the
disease had raged in an epidemic form not long previously ; General No. 244 was
ordered to work towards this part of the talooka, and the result was that during the
month of June he vaccinated 795 children. From what I had seen of his work, I had
no reason to doubt the correctness of this return ; but I transmitted it to the Mam-
lutdar, and requested him to ascertain if all the children named had been operated on.
It was found to be quite correct.
On the 1st April I was at Sangola, in the Sholapoor Zillah. The Coolkurnees
and Patels were very ignorant about vaccination, and had no correct registers. Having
collected all those within a reasonable distance of my camp, I caused them to prepare
correct registers, and had them stamped and signed by myself. The work of the
Municipal Vaccinator was carefully performed, and his lymph was good. Leaving
this I proceeded through Punderpoor, and examined the work of General No. 168
and of the Municipal Vaccinator. Both were satisfactory, but small in amount. They
were warned to exert themselves. Passing on to the Marheh Talooka I inspected the
work of General No. 144 ; his lymph was bad, and it was at once renewed. Scat-
tered over this talooka there are sixteen or seventeen villages belonging to the
Jagheerdar of Meeruj, in which very little vaccination had ever been performed.
Small-pox was present in two of them at the time of my visit; and the Vaccinator inform-
ed me that these unprotected villages acted as hot-beds, from which the infection was
disseminated over the whole talooka. I represented the matter to Colonel Anderson,
the Political Agent, who at once agreed to allow Rs. 4 per mensem to the Govern-
ment Vaccinator, on condition that he should operate once a week in some of these
villages. On my arrival at Indapoor the Municipal Vaccinator was literally idle. I
supplied him with fresh lymph, and urged him to exert himself. Latterly he has
improved. In these talookas I had no difficulty in collecting the children for inspec-
tion ; in fact, many of the people were anxious that I should see their children, and
state if it were " all right."
Leaving Indapoor, I proceeded through the Bhimthurry Talooka towards
Poorundhur, where I examined the work and lymph of General No. 37 : both were