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the pay of the new Vaccinator who has been appointed to do work
in Narayangaon and Otoor.

12.    Government view with much pleasure the progress vac-
cination is making in Native States. The prompt assistance given
by the Chiefs of Jamkhandi, Sanglee, and Miraj is greatly to their
credit. The attention of the Karbhari of Bhore should be drawn
to the advisability of appointing another Vaccinator to that State.
The suggestions of Dr. Turnbull for the re-organization of the
Vaccination Department in Kutch should also be communicated
to the Political Agent. It is probable that His Highness the
Rao would readily entertain Dr. Tumbull's sensible proposals if
they were laid before him.

13.     Dr. Turnbull reports that for want of skill, coupled
with want of energy and deficient tact, the vaccination that goes
on at Dispensaries is very unsatisfactory. Government were cer-
tainly not prepared to learn that many Sub-Assistant Surgeons
and Hospital Assistants are unable to vaccinate, and they cannot
imagine how, with such ignorance, they can have passed into the
service. The Surgeon-General should be requested to make ar-
rangements so that all the students at the Grant Medical College
may learn vaccination in future. At the same time His Excel-
lency in Council is not altogether prepared to endorse all Dr.
Turnbull's conclusions as to Dispensary Vaccination. The officers
in charge of these institutions have more important duties to
perform than vaccination, which is merely an incidental adjunct
to their appointments. They are moreover placed in large towns
where, as Dr. Turnbull himself admits, the population is usually
more obstructive than in rural districts, and not having undivided
time, are unable to go seeking for children as the regular Vacci-
nators can. In future where there is a Municipal Vaccinator he

should be responsible for the vaccination of the town. Where
there is none, the officer in charge of a Dispensary should be looked
to, but the Superintendent General must try to have a special
peon allowed him for the purpose, or he cannot be expected to
work satisfactorily.

14.     The Deputy Surgeons-General should take care to notice
in their reports the progress made in vaccination at each Dispen-
sary, and any cases of incompetence should be specially reported.

15.     Government have already expressed their views on the
subject of animal vaccination. It is a subject to which the most
careful attention should be paid.