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clear that, until the people are made acquainted with the nature and value of vaccination,
they will not avail themselves of it. Where it has once been established, there, if they do
not demand it eagerly, at least opposition in a great measure cases; but though nearly
seven years have now elapsed since the Division was formed, there is a very large portion
of it to which the advantages of vaccination have not been extended ; and why ? because
the number of Vaccinators was not sufficient to introduce it, in the first instance,
in all parts. To show how inadequate the means are, I will contrast this Division
with the Concan, in which there are two Zillahs containing a population of about
1,500,000, impressed with the greatest dread of Small-pox, and eagerly demanding
vaccination, and for this, there are eighteen Vaccinators. The area, too, is such that the
Superintendent is able to visit nearly the whole Division during the year. Here there are four
Zillahs containing—independent of the Jagheers—a population of nearly 4,000,000, enter-
taining no particular dread of Small-pox, and, for the most part, not only not desiring vacci-
nation, but opposing its introduction. There are forty Talookas, some of them of enormous
extent, and for this work, too, there are also eighteen Vaccinators ; and as, in addition to
these, the Superintendent has under him the whole of the Kholapoor states and sixteen
Vaccinators entertained by Native Chiefs, it is impossible for him to go over the whole Division
even in two years. I have tried so to distribute the Establishment that each Vaccinator
should be in the centre of two or more Talookas ; but whenever a man is called away from the
district in which work is going on steadily, to give assistance in another, it almost always
happens that much valuable time is lost, and it frequently occurs that, on arriving at a
village to which he has been sent at the request of the authorities, he finds that the people
will not receive his services; his lymph is lost, and delay occurs in re-establishing it. I
have no hesitation in stating as my opinion that, if the present Division is retained, the Estab-
lishment should be doubled, at least for the next two or three years, so as to get the whole
population made acquainted with vaccination, without withdrawing men from those parts
where they are already at work. But I think it would be far better to divide the Northern
and Southern Deccan into three Divisions, each with Establishments of the present strength,
and so enable the Superintendents to make more frequent, and therefore more effective
inspection of all their districts. The only other alternative would be to concentrate the whole
of the Vaccinators in one Zillah at a time during the fair season, and go thoroughly over it;
but this would have the disadvantage of leaving all the rest of the Division for a long time
without vaccination; and moreover, in the Canarese districts, those Vaccinators who speak
only Marathi would be almost useless.
Resumè of Tours.—I concluded my tour in 1858-59 at Churchun in Sholapore Zillah ;
from thence I proceeded to Punderpore—Sattara Zillah,—and examined the work carried on
there in all its stages, and found it good : the lymph in excellent condition, and the Vaccina-
tor himself working better than be had done. Vaccination, too, was more willingly received
by the people than has been generally the case in this Division, which is accounted for by the
fact that a Vaccinator has been long stationed in this Talooka, and the Mamlutdar
was the
most zealous in the cause of any whom I have met. I thence proceeded to Bembleh Talooka,
Sholapore, and on examination of the work, found it by no means satisfactory. I established
lymph in two considerable towns—Kurkumb, Timbournee—where there had been previously
much opposition. I thence proceeded to Phultun—Sattara districts,—and examined the work of
the Vaccinator there stationed, than which nothing could be worse. I laid down a plan by which
the work was to be carried on systematically from one end of the Jagheer to the other, and earn-
estly asked for the assistance of the Chiefs and his Officers, both personally, and the Political
Agent; but this plan has not been carried out. Thence I proceeded to Ryhemalpore—Kore¬
gaum Talooka, Sattara—and examined the work, and found it good. This closed my tour for
the season. I had intended to have visited the Bhore Jagheer, but was prevented by illness.