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to persons having some authority in the village and acquainted with the people; but the
result was such as to convince me of the determination of a large majority of those persons,
especially of the tullatees, to afford no active assistance to this Department. Nearly all neglected
to prepare these lists, and when called to account stated that they had given them to the
vaccinators, or that they were not asked for them, or that the people denied that they had
any unprotected childern, &c. In one instance a tullatee prepared an indiscriminate list of
persons in his village, of whom many had no children, and many had no unprotected children,
while the names of several persons who had unprotected children were omitted. On the
other hand, one vaccinator was much surprised at being supplied with these lists, and also
at receiving active assistance from the patels in several villages where he was working, and
the cause of this it seems was that one patel had been suspended for some months the pre-
vious year for neglecting to make a requisition for the assistance of a vaccinator when small-
pox was prevalent in his village. It is much to be regretted that the difficulty of proving
complaints against patels and tullatees is so great, because occasional punishments induce
these officials to afford active support to the vaccinators, and when this is afforded work
almost invariably goes on satisfactorily, while without it very little progress can be made.

On the 1st January 1863 I was at Sannud, thence I travelled to Verrumgaum and Mandul,
after that through the Palunpoor States, where I visited Sumee, Deodur, Babur, Wan, Deesa,
and Palunpoor. I then travelled southerly through the Mahee Kanta and through Morassa,
and afterwards visited Kuppurwunj, Jeytulpoor, Kaira, Neriad, Napar, and Borsud, examining
the work of the vaccinators in the different districts. During and after the monsoon I
examined the work of the vaccinators in Chorassee and Oolpar, then crossed to Gogo, and
travelling into the Dhundooka district, I examined vaccination in and around Burwalla and
Dholera. I then travelled into the Dholka district, where I was when the year terminated.
In this tour I examined the work of 20 Government and 9 Native Chiefs' vaccinators, some
of the latter had not been inspected for years, and one had never been visited, although he had
been employed for nearly eight years in his district. In verifying their returns I failed to
discover any false names recorded, and although in some cases when examining the children
there was a larger number of persons reported absent by the patels than I could have wished,
still I am satisfied that falsification does not take place to any great extent. The patels seem
frequently to take no trouble in ascertaining the correctness of the numbers in the Form V 2
which they attest, sometimes relying on the vaccinator's statement and at others even signing
the blank form and allowing the vaccinators to fill in the numbers afterwards.