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but that over the whole Circle 21,943 cases had occurred, of these 93.5 per cent.
were unprotected and 6.5 had been previously vaccinated. With reference to this, the
Inspector General in his letter No- 2071 of 27th July 1870, handing up the
Superintendent General's Report for 1869-70 to Government, says in para. 12, "I would
ask, how is it possible that any population in the Presidency can have 93 per cent. of
its number unvaccinated ?" The population of the Central Circle is over 4,000,000,
and among this population during 1869 there occurred 21,943 cases of small-pox,
which is equal to about 5.3 per mille of population. I stated that 93.5 per cent. of
the cases of small-pox were unprotected, but made no allusion to the percentage of
unprotected among the population as a whole. I am not aware of the system pursued
in the other Circles to obtain statistics of small-pox, but as the Inspector General has
stated that the whole of the figures in the earlier portion of para. 23 of the Superin-
tendent General's report (which is a quotation from para. 16 of my report) are
untrustworthy, I respectfully submit that it remains to be considered, whether these
registers are worth the trouble bestowed on their preparation and examination,
and the unavoidable expense entailed in transmitting the returns from the Mamlutdars
to the Superintendent, or whether some new method should not be devised, to ascertain
more accurately the number of cases of small-pox occurring in each village. The
Inspector General further states that it would be interesting if further particulars of
the means adopted to protect the people of the two talookas specially named were
stated. With reference to the Indee talooka, I stated as follows in the resumé of my
tour for 1869, " 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." Let it be remembered that previous to my going there no report with
reference to the outbreak had been made to either myself or the vaccinator. As to
Shindghee I heard through the Superintendent of Police that the disease had
raged there epidemically, but this was only after the outbreak had all but subsided.
A vaccinator was sent to the talooka at once.
Tour.
6. On the 1st of April I was in the Nuggur talooka where I examined the work
of General Nos. 237, 289, and the Municipal Vaccinator of
Ahmednuggur. Many of the cicatrices were small on
account of too many children having been vaccinated from one vaccinifer. I then
went through Parnair to Seroor, where I examined the work of Veshmenath Rago, Local
Fund vaccinator. Both work and lymph were unsatisfactory, and he was sent to
Ahmednuggur to procure a fresh supply of lymph, and ordered to work gradually back
to his own talooka. In the Kheir, Mawul, and Haveilly talookas I inspected the work
and lymph of General Nos. 23 and 40, I had no fault to find with either. During the
rains I examined the lymph of the two Municipal vaccinators and that of the Civil
Hospital vaccinator at Poona. The two former were working with very inferior lymph,