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might permit his peon to operate, a fine only was inflicted in this instance, He has
certainly improved since last year, and bids fair to be more careful for the future.
At Nurgoond and surrounding villages very few vaccinations have been done of late
owing to the interruption of vaccination in the Noolgoond talooka by the dismissal of the
late vaccinator for falsification. At Christmas I was in the Badamee talooka and in-
spected the old work of Swamyrao Rungoo. He had been sick, and consequently had
lost his lymph, which was subsequently renewed from vaccinator Jairam Krishna. His
work, judged of by cicatrices, was good, and his registers and books neatly and well
kept. On the 10th January I went into Kulladghee to meet the Superintendent
General of Vaccination, who, after inspecting my office, &c., examined with me the work
of the Kulladghee Municipal vaccinator, with which I was satisfied, as I believe was
also the Superintendent General. This man had excellent lymph. The Superinten-
dent General of Vaccination next accompanied me to Bagulkote, where we examined
the work of the Municipal and Government vaccinators, as also that of the
dispensary. Both vaccinators' work was on the whole satisfactory. By direction
of the Superintendent General the Hospital Assistant in charge of the dispensary
was directed to discontinue vaccinating at the dispensary because of there being
insufficient children to ensure good work, and the fact of there being a Muni-
cipal vaccinator, who will henceforth vaccinate in a greater number of villages
than he has hitherto done. The Kulladghee vaccinator has almost solely confined his
operations to the town of Kulladghee, which, as he states, does not give him a sufficient
number of cases. The Municipality offer no objections to his working in other
villages even within a radius of 8 or 10 miles, and by the recommendation of Dr.
Pinkerton, he has been accordingly directed to work in the neighbouring villages.
From there we travelled to the Bagehwara talooka. After two days delay I met the
vaccinator General No. 192 at Mookurteehal, and examined his work in 10 villages
altogether. In Telegee his lymph was very indifferent, though in other villages where
his lymph was established it was good, the vesicles well formed, but small. In this
talooka I visited in company with the Superintendent General of Vaccination the
village of Sanchnal, and on calling over the names as usual, was told that one child
was suffering from small-pox after having been successfully vaccinated. On having
the child produced there was no doubt of its having the disease, but any marks of
vaccination could not be discovered, nevertheless they still persisted that this was the
child that was vaccinated. The vaccinator was absent, but on his arrival he informed
us that he did not operate on this child but another in the same house, and the
father who was sent for then stated, in contradiction to the assertions of the Patel
and the mother, that his vaccinated child had gone to another village. To clear
up the mystery the child was sent for and sure enough there were recent marks of
vaccination on both arms, and it was from this very child that the vaccinator had
taken lymph to vaccinate others. This again shows how careful one should be in
not too readily giving credence to the assertions of village officers respecting vaccina-
tion, who generally know little about it, and to save themselves trouble will make