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Vaccinator Govind Ballal, was dismissed the service for falsifying his returns, which
he had done to a considerable extent, and for many years ; a third, Assistant Vaccinator
Cassaram Palkar, was also dismissed the service for misappropriation of public moneys,
the amount was trifling and a falsehood was pleaded in justification. Unfortunately the
man had a bad name; he had been accused several times before of obtaining money
and supplies from the parents of the children he had vaccinated. On one occasion
I had to fine him for being absent without leave, on another occasion for detaining his
peon's pay, and he was met last April at Narel, by the vaccinator attached to this
office, the very day he should have been vaccinating in his talooka some sixty miles
away. I felt bound under these circumstances to recommend his dismissal. But now
that he has been severely punished, I trust that the experience he has gone through
will teach him honesty and a better sense of duty, and I beg therefore to recommend
him to the merciful consideration of Government, and that in consideration of his
fourteen years' previous service he be reinstated but in a lower grade.
No vacci-
nators have been suspended ; the amount fined was altogether Rupees 42, and no
other punishment of any kind was deemed necessary ; indeed most of the men have
done their duty well; the Local Funds' vaccinators at present employed give
satisfaction, and taking every thing into consideration I deem the conduct of the
vaccinators on the whole both good and creditable.
Tour.
14. At the beginning of the official year I visited part of the Tanna Collectorate.
During the rains I proceeded to Poona to work at animal
vaccination. In the beginning of October I proceed to Da-
poolee, from thence I visited the whole of the Rutnagherry collectorate ; from Vingorla
I returned North by sea and proceeded to Mhar, and from that place through the
Colaba collectorate, which I also completely inspected.
15. Travelling in the Western Circle is no sinecure, it is both expensive and
difficult, and I fear that on this account the Western Circle must always stand low,
if not lowest, when compared with the other Circles of Superintendence. Extent and
rapidity of travelling are not very feasible in the Konkan.
Variolation.
16. I made during the year a series of experiments on the variolation of cows
and heifers, and although I placed myself in the most
favourable condition for success, I always and completely
failed; nor was I, while on tour, more successful in my attempts to vaccinate heifers
with heifer vaccine lymph, and the only time I obtained a favourable result was in
retrovaccinating a calf: the vaccinations obtained with this lymph were very good,
although not so readily accepted by the human system as humanized lymph gene-
rally is. Thanks to Mr. Anunta Chandroba I received on several occasions some very
good lymph to replace some that had degenerated, nor did I forget him ; I obtained
from Dr. Warlomont, of Brussels, a fresh supply of Cow-pox on ivory points, which I
at once forwarded to Mr. Anunta Chandroba, and I have had the pleasure to learn
from that gentleman that they have proved very successful.