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                                                REWA KANTA CIRCLE.

                              Superintendent.—Assistant Surgeon A. W. G. ADEY.
                                  Establishment.—Five Vaccinators (Government).

                                    Seven Vaccinators (Native Chiefs).

It will be seen that while there has been an increase in the number vaccinated in the Punch
Mahals during this year over the last, there has been a considerable decrease in the Rewa
Kanta. This is partly attributable to there having been fewer assistant vaccinators employed
this year than there were in 1862. Last year in Rajpeepla, according to Dr. Dick's return,
there were five vaccinators employed by the Raja, while this year he has only employed three.
In Oodeypoor for nearly two months the vaccinator was sick, and in October he went away
without leave of absence, and has not since returned.

In Sunkera the Native Chief refused in August last to pay anything whatever for carrying
on vaccination, the assistant vaccinator was consequently discharged. Sunkera therefore has
not been included in this year's returns. The districts inspected by me this year have been
Dohud, Jhallode, part of Godra, and part of Rajpeepla. I went in April with the late Assistant
Political Agent to Soanth and Ranapore, and endeavoured to induce the Raja of Soanth to
entertain an assistant vaccinator, but he declined.

In Dohud and Jhallode, and contiguous districts, the country is hilly, and the villages—
inhabited mostly by Bheels—are small and widely scattered, and in the hilly parts especially
some difficulty is found in inducing the Bheels to submit to vaccination. The assistant
vaccinator is more successful in those villages where a few Rajpoots are located with the
Bheels. In Godra, a more thickly populated district, most villages contain a considerable
number of Rajpoots and Koonbies, and no complaint is made of difficulty by the assistant
vaccinator. There is of course in Rajpeepla and all other hilly places the same difference
in their appreciation of vaccination between the hill Bheels and those of the plains.