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tiling that miglit bo conooivably of the least use to tliein afterwards. 

 This might have led to very serious consequences by diverting their 

 attention from the really essential part of the measures taken. 



It was recommended that the work should be concentrated 

 in Amalapur Taluk at first. This Taluk comprises five firkas 

 and bordered on non-infected tracts and on the sea for a considerable 

 portion of its periphery. For the rest it was separated from in- 

 fected parts of Ramachendrapur and Nagaram Taluks by large 

 branches of the Godavari, across which reinfection was not likely to 

 be frequent. The area of the Taluk is 506 square miles, of which 

 about four-fifths were infected in 1907. 



Accordingly an enlarged campaign was commenced in Amala- 

 pur Taluk in June 1907. The executive staff consisted of eight 

 Revenue Inspectors and Assistant Revenue Inspectors. The general 

 control of the staff was entrusted to Mr. A. A. Ferguson, an Assistant 

 Collector of the Indian Civil Service. In addition to Mr. Sundara- 

 raman, three Supervisors were employed, two, Mr. S. N. Mitra and 

 Babu R. Sen, from the Mycological Laboratory, Pusa, and one, 

 Agricultural Inspector BalakrishnaMurti, from the Madras Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Later in the year Revenue Inspector K. 

 Lakshmana Rao, who proved exceptionally capable, was promoted 

 to the position of Supervisor and Messrs. Mitra and Sen returned 

 to Pusa. The Supervisors were each assigned a definite area within 

 which they were expected to travel about, check the work of the 

 working parties and call attention to any neglected cases or any re- 

 crudescence of the disease in villages already worked over. They 

 were also empowered in cases of urgency to employ labour inde- 

 pendently for cutting out diseased trees. 



The difficulties encountered during the operations were num- 

 erous, but were generally surmounted successfully, where this was 

 possible, by the efforts of the staff. One of the chief, however, 

 has always been present to a greater or less extent ; this is the diffi- 

 culty of securing permanency in the staff itself. Every Department 



