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As regards the percentage of inspections of primary operations, Dehra Dun
tops the list of the districts returning high percentages with 74.95, followed by
Garhwal with 73.82, Jalaun with 70.97, Pilibhit with 70.41 and Hamirpur with
65.93. Among the districts returning low percentages are Allahabad with 18.31,
Farrukhabad with 27.00, Unao with 27.25, Budaun with 27.35 and Sitapur with
27.78. Of these, only Unao shows a slight improvement over the preceding year.
Provincial Bovine Lymph Dépôt
at Patwa Dangar (Naini Tal
district).
19. I held the charge of the dépôt throughout the triennium (1914-15 to
1916-17) with the exception of the period mentioned
in paragraph 3. Three hundred and seventy calves
(138 cow and 232 buffalo) were obtained for
vaccination at the dépôt in 1916-17 as against 382 and 571 in 1915-16 and 1914-15
respectively. The increase in the number of calves in 1914-15 as compared with
1915-16 and 1916-17 was due to the demand for a large quantity of lymph from
the province of Bihar and Orissa.
Of the 370 calves, 350 (134 cow and 216 buffalo) were successfully vacci-
nated, 15 failed and 5 died unvaccinated or while under operation. Out of the
350 calves successfully vaccinated 31 died subsequently, bringing the total
number of deaths up to 36. Of these, 23 calves died from " pleuro-pneumonia,''
5 from "black quarter" and 8 from other causes. The veterinary assistant of
Haldwani was in attendance and inoculated some of the infected calves.
The total yield of crude lymph from the 350 calves successfully vaccinated in
1916-17 amounted to 18,348 7 grammes or 52'4 grammes per calf against 16,868'7
grammes from 358 calves or 47.1 grammes per calf in 1915-16 and 19,237'2
grammes from 538 calves or 35.7 grammes per calf in 1914-15. It may be noted
that the yield per calf in 1916-17 was the largest ever obtained.
From the crude lymph (18,348.7 grammes), 106,577.5 grammes of glycerinated
lymph and 1,188.5 grammes of grlycerine paste were prepared during the year under
report as compared with 95,519.7 grammes and 2,236.5 grammes in last year and
108,932'4 and 2,408.2 grammes, in the year before last, respectively. There being
no demand for lanoline paste, none was prepared in 1916-17 nor in 1915-16, and
only 8.5 grammes were prepared in 1914-15.
The annual output of lymph, the number of areas in which arm-to-arm.
vaccination has been replaced by calf lymph vaccination and the income and
expenditure of the dépôt are shown in the subjoined table:—
Year.
1904-5 ...
1905-6 ...
1906-7 ...
1907-8 ...
1908-9 ...
1909-10...
1910-11 ...
1911-12 ...
1912-13 ...
1913-14...
1914-15...
1915-16 ...
1916-17 ...
Quantity of lymph issued.
Glycerinated lymph.
Tubes.
21,049
74,800
113,945
198,224
243,722
249,974
358,939
193,356
180,445
193,932
296,423
150,347
169,880
In bulk.
Gram-
mes.
Grs
Nil.
98
205
0
0
Nil.
3,806
9,147
9,392
41,460
58,427
70,296
94,547
83,110
82,960
3
0
0
12
13
10
13
7
0
Glycerine
paste.
Gram¬
mes.
Grs.
Nil.
Nil.
1,367
668
749
414
45
44
83
79
328
66
36
0
12
0
0
0
0
3
7
0
0
7
Lanoline
paste.
Gram-
mes.
79
120
19
161
4
4
6
Grs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
8 7
Nil.
Nil.
Arm-to-arm vaccination
replaced by calf-lymph
vaccination in—
Dis¬
tricts.
...
...
...
...
4
8
13
22
35
37
41
47
47
Munici-
palities.
5
14
23
53
79
87
87
87
87
86
84
84
84
Notified
areas.
...
...
...
5
19
32
37
45
45
46
48
47
45
Income.
Rs.
106
2,057
3,527
6,118
8,572
8,527
14,211
18,780
24,019
28,867
39,174
30,789
31,066
Expendi-
ture.
Rs.
3,300
7,789
5,741
6,777
12,573
10,524
12,097
13,030
14,894
17,247
20,703
21,228
22,335
Glycerinated lymph in 169,880 glass capillary tubes and 82,960 grammes in
bulk and 36 ½ grammes of glycerine paste were issued during the year under report
as against 150,347 tubes and 83,110.5 and 66 grammes in last year and 296,423 tubes
and 94,547.9 and 328 grammes in the year before last respectively. The decrease
in the supply of lymph during 1916-17 and 1915-16, as compared with that in
1914-15, was due to the stoppage of the supply of lymph to the province of Bihar
and Orissa.
All the municipalities (numbering 84) and 45 notified areas purchased lymph
during 1916-17. The quantity purchased by them shows a decline as compared
with 1915-16 and 1914-15, the amounts realized being Rs. 5,303, Rs. 5,461 and
Rs. 6,098 respectively. The decrease in the case of municipalities is due to the fact
that 13 municipalities, viz., Lalitpur (Jhansi), Bareilly, Tilhar (Shahjahanpur),