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Local Funds.
30. The large increase of vaccinated persons under this head must be set against the
decrease under the head of Government Establishment,
and there still remains an increase of 7,050, taking the
totals of the two establishments. This is partly due to the appointment of additional vaccina-
tors on the Local Funds, where no Imperial vaccinator was formerly entertained. In Hunu-
gundá, Mudebihál, and Bijápur Tálukás of the Kaládgi Collectorate this has been the case;
and in Belgáon Táluká, in addition to the transferred Government vaccinator, a second has
been entertained since the 1st of August last. In Bankápur, of the two vaccinators.
formerly employed by Government and by Local Funds, the former was struck off the
list on the 1st of August. In Bágalkot one of the two vaccinators shown against last
year was a Municipal Fund vaccinator, and this year he comes into his proper place under
that head. Whether or not the operations of both men for last year were totalled together
against Bágalkot Táluká I am unable to say. The station vaccinator at Kárwár was reduced,
and one appointed on the Local Funds from 1st August. In Bhatkal Pethá, of Honáwar
Táluká, a vaccinator has been temporarily appointed. The work required of the táluká vac-
cinator could not be overtaken by himself alone, and on. the urgent request of the Collector
of Kánadá the Superintendent General sanctioned the extra establishment from the 1st March,
and as long as the special services of a vaccinator were required. The Collector was willing
to make the entertainment a permanent one. In Bágewádi Táluká of Kaládgi Zilhá, there
has been no vaccinator since the 1st of August, so that the work there must be lamentably
backward. In the resolution it is said that by some oversight budget provision was made
for seven instead of for eight vaccinators in Kaládgi Zilhá. In August provision for support-
ing a new vaccinator at Bágewádí was submitted to the Collector, but as yet no sanction has
been obtained.
Native States.
31. The increase shown and the steady percentage for the year are creditable to the
vaccinators. Fines have been inflicted in several cases,
for negligence and want of precision in submitting returns.
The result has been, greater care and punctuality in carrying on the work generally. Chiefly
to the interest in the Department taken by Colonel Anderson and his Assistant, Major
Westropp, is the progress of vaccination in the States to be attributed.
32. At Lakmeshwar, an outlying patch of the Miraj State, the work was in a backward
condition when I visited the place in February. The people for the most part were very
unwilling to give their children to be operated on, and for the following reason which the
Mámlatdár explained to me :—A child there had been vaccinated and died very soon after-
wards—from natural causes I have no doubt, and therefore a mere coincidence. The people,
of course, were impressed unfavorably; and naturally enough, where ignorance prevailed,
they would refuse to subject their children to such a risk. The Mámlatdár is deserving of
credit for his exertions among the people in representing to them the necessity for vaccina-
tion. No vaccinator had been working there since August last, and previous to that date
Operations had been carried on, but no Register kept. The exertions of Major Westropp in
behalf of vaccination have given things a favorable turn,—Registers have been introduced,
and the work bids fair to progress. The Miraj vaccinator is at a great distance from this
portion of the State, and for this reason it has been arranged that either of the táluká vaccina-
tors of Dambal or Bankápur which surround Lakmeshwar, shall carry on the State work
in and round about this place, in consideration of Government work done by the Miraj vac-
cinator, in his own neighbourhood, without extra expense.
33. In Sávanur State considerable opposition to vaccination still prevails, so that the
vaccinator finds the greatest difficulty in getting children on whom to operate. I personally
represented the backwardness of the work to Mr. Robertson, the Collector of Dhárwár, who