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and Vaccinator Balajee Purbhooram (General No. 254) in Godra, and also the work of
Assistant Vaccinator Mahasunker Cassiram (General No. 255) in Kalole, and Appren-
tice Vaccinator Dajee Kaiwulram (General No. 319) in Halole. The first three men
have been in the Department ever since the formation of this Circle, and it is sufficient
to say that their work has all along been thoroughly good. General No. 319 had at
that time only been employed for about a year, and I was highly satisfied with the
success he had met with. I inspected 31 of his villages, and always found the vesicles
and cicatrices large and well formed. I next proceeded to Chota Oodeypoor, and, as
usual, felt this to be the least pleasing part of my tour. This State is the only part
of the Circle in which the progress of vaccination has not been satisfactory : the
Vaccinator gets little or no assistance from the authorities, and is, therefore, unable
to overcome the opposition of the people. In 1866 the vaccinations amounted to 389,
in 1867 to 535, in 1868 to 484, and during the past year to 706. This increase is
so far satisfactory; but the quality of the work was indifferent, the percentage of
success, according to the Vaccinator's returns, only amounting to 84.3, which, however,
is too high, as many unsuccessful operations had been recorded as successful. For
this I heavily fined the Vaccinator ; but I could scarcely blame him for his want of
success, as I knew he was both able and willing to work well, if the people would only
give him a fair chance. He has to contend with many difficulties, which, I believe,
will be overcome in course of time by perseverance. During previous years vaccina-
tion had chiefly been carried on in the neighbourhood of the Kusba town ; but as the
town is a small one, and the surrounding country decidedly jungly and thinly
populated, I, on the occasion of my visit in 1868, directed the Vaccinator to take his
lymph to Wasna, in the southern part of the State, the country there appearing
more populous and the people more civilized. After inspecting Wasna and the
surrounding villages, I took my camp to Boodaleoo, where I only remained for one
night, as I found that, instead of being an aid to the Vaccinator, I was a hinderance.
There was lymph in two villages, Boodaleoo and Timbroo, but I did not see it, as the
people left their villages on my approach, and remained absent during the 24 hours
I was encamped there. The Patel undertook to bring the people in ; but as he neither
did so, nor returned himself, I reported the circumstance to the Political Agent.
Before leaving the Vaccinator, I vaccinated several children in Wasna with tube lymph.
My next camp was at Naswaree, in the Sunkeira Mewas, which has only been a vac-
cination district since September 1868. The Vaccinator, Wishoonath Oomyasunker,
was very ill for about a month, but, notwithstanding that, and the fact of the district
being a new one, he succeeded in vaccinating 651 children. The people do not
readily accept his services, and he is therefore unable to travel over his district as
rapidly as he otherwise would. I inspected 14 of his villages; the work, though not
as good as that of the more experienced Vaccinators, was creditable. His percentage
of success was only 76.6, but his returns were correct. On the 14th December I
started for Rajpeepla, where there are two Vaccinators, Fuckeer Mohamed Mullang-
bhoie and Heeralal Wishoonath, who have been employed in the same State for many
years, and have always done very good work. The first mentioned man suffered