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Colonel Schneider has done so much to render it popular. In the Western
Circle I examined some vaccinations in Vingorla town, and schools there.
The result in the schools were :—

I was very well pleased with the efforts made by Mr. Apothecary Han-
son. From Vingorla I returned to Bombay by steamer. I visited the
Superintendent of the Western Circle at Oorun, and inspected his Office
records. I visited the Kattiawar Circle, to learn, by a personal interview
with Dr. Butler, something about the arrangements in his Circle for super-
intending the large number of Native Chiefs' Vaccinators, and came to the
conclusion that the system, though not by any means perfect, was about as
good as could be practically got at. I suggested to Colonel Anderson, the
Political Agent in Kattiawar, that it would be advisable for the Superintend-
ent to be consulted by the Chiefs before appointing, dismissing, or fixing
the pay of their Vaccinators; and this, I am happy to say, the Chiefs almost
invariably do. In August I proceeded to Europe on privilege leave. During
my absence my duties were ably performed by Dr. Niven. When "at home"
I got some insight into the working of the Vaccination Acts in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, which was useful to me in drawing up the draft of
the Bombay Vaccination Act. On returning to India, at the end of Novem-
ber, I drew up and submitted a draft of the Bombay Vaccination Act, and
then started for the Rewa Kanta Circle, through which I went in company
with Dr. Welsh. I visited a number of villages in Rajpeepla and Punch

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