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Mahasook Kuddoojee, who has now been working in that district for two years with
great success. His lymph and the resulting cicatrices were decidedly good; and the
only unsatisfactory part of the work was that very few of the operations performed
were on children under one year of age. I have no doubt that an improvement will
soon take place in that respect, as, has been already stated, there are now two men at
work in Barrea. On the 4th January I returned to my head-quarters, Dohud, where
I remained until the 28th, inspecting the work of Assistant Vaccinator Jaithalal
Gunputram (General No. 253), who is a very intelligent, hard working man. When
I am in Dohud he does the Guzerathi work of the office in addition to his ordinary
duties, and when I am on tour I place a substitute in his appointment, and
take him with me as Carkoon on increased pay. The manner in which he has all
along performed his various duties has been most satisfactory. On the 28th I
camped at Ruliatee, in the Jhalode districts, and commenced inspecting the work
of Apprentice Vaccinator Pursotum Duyaram (General No. 279). His district is
rather more difficult to work in than the others, but, notwithstanding that, he always
manages to perform a creditable number of operations, and his vesicles and cicatrices
are generally very good. I next went to Soonth, where Assistant Vaccinator
Sobharam Sewuckram has been employed since May 1867. At first he had great
difficulty in inducing the people to submit their children for vaccination, as the opera-
tion was new to them, no Vaccinator having been there for many years before, and a
fair start was not made until I visited the district in November of that year. Since
that time considerable progress has been made,—in 1867, 99 children were vaccinated ;
in 1868, 619 children; and during the year under review the operations amounted to
1,136. The quality of the work was very fair indeed. As this Vaccinator is partly paid
by the Thakore of Kuddana, he carries on work in that State for three months each
year; so on the 16th February I left Soonth for Kuddana, where I remained for four
days and inspected 25 villages. The Vaccinator had met with much less opposition
in Kuddana than in Soonth, which is partly accounted for by the fact that the
Thakore not only assisted him in many ways, such as supplying him with a Peon, but,
by way of example, sent his only son to the bazaar to be vaccinated in public. The
Soonth Durbar gave little assistance, and that little grudgingly. On the 21st February
I arrived at Loonawara, where I inspected the work of Assistant Vaccinator Chuggun
Roopchund, who at that time only carried on operations for six. months of each year
in Loonawara, the remainder of the year being devoted to Ballasinore. On the 2nd
March I removed my camp to Wordrce, to enable me to visit some of the Ballasinore
villages. The past work of this Vaccinator was good and his returns correct, but his
vesicles and recent cicatrices, though well formed, were unusually small. Fresh
lymph was therefore introduced. On the 8th I started on my return journey, travel-
ling across Godra to Dohud, where I arrived on the 14th. On my way I inspected the
work of Vaccinator Balajee Purbhooram (General No. 254) in nine villages, and, as
has invariable been the case, found it everything that could'be desired.
15. I resumed my tour in November, during which month I again inspected
the work of Assistant Vaccinator Jaithalal Gunputram (General No. 253) in Dohud,