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lymph having been abandoned. Animal lymph brought in tubes from Cambay was
also introduced here, and after a few transmissions has produced excellent results.
From Borsud I also examined the fresh work of General No. 221 at Napaar, and
found it to be good. There was no vaccination going on at Borsud Dispensary, and the
Hospital Assistant went on leave just after my arrival. Travelling from Borsud to Salol
I crossed the river Mhye, and arrived at Karelee in Jumboosur Talooka. Some old work
of Assistant Vaccinator Chintamunee Vithul (GeneralNo. 96) was seen at Karelee, and I
proceeded to my next station, Juntram, where, from the returns and weekly reports,
I expected to find him working, but the day of vaccination he was not there. I learned
that the vaccinations in Juntram were all performed by another man named Soorujram
Nathjee. The monthly returns of January and February were carefully examined ;
most of the villages were visited; and I was satisfied that this man Chintamunee had
left his talooka for his native town, Chiploon, in Rutnagherry, after the first week of
January. The work performed by Soorujram was of the worst kind, and there were
many false entries. The friends of Chintamunee, at Jumboosur, hearing of my being
in the talooka, were intent upon passing off the fraud on me. They procured a false
certificate from the Hospital Assistant in charge of the Jumboosur Dispensary, and got
up some other false reports. For several reasons it was thought convenient not to
undertake any criminal prosecution. Chintamunee Vithul was dismissed from the
Service, and the conduct of the Hospital Assistant reported to the Deputy Inspector
General, Northern Division, and the Superintendent General of Vaccination. From
Juntram I proceeded to Jumboosur, and from thence to Pukhajun in Wagra Talooka,
from where the old and fresh work of Apprentice Vaccinator Ruveesunker Tooljasunker
(General No. 303) was examined. His past work was not satisfactory : he vaccinates
very few children at a time : his vesicles, though normal in appearance, were rather
small: his weekly reports were incorrectly dated, vaccinations of one week having
been entered into subsequent weeks. I could not exactly find out why he did so, and
can only guess that he has been irregular in his work. From Pukhajun I travelled
to Bhersum, and by the close of the year under report, had just arrived and encamped
at Broach.
Result of the inspection of Vacci-
nators' work.
17. Of the 28 Vaccinators whose work was examined during the above tour,
four were found working with bad lymph; the
lymph of five others was not so good as it ought to
have been ; the rest were doing very good work.
Each man's inspection was thorough and searching. During this long tour there
was no discovery of any case of making false returns, i. e., entering false names.
Mistakes, as regards age, sex, result, and solitary entries of unvaccinated names, have
been noticed here and there.
Conduct of Vaccinators.
18. On the whole, it affords me great pleasure to state, as a class, the conduct of
the Vaccinators was uniformly good and meritorious,
and their work during the year is a sufficient proof
of their zeal and industry.