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The total cost of the scheme was estimated to be Rs. 8,64,000, of which Rs. 28,30a
would probably be expended in any case, leaving the extra expenditure on account of
the inoculation scheme at Rs. 5,81,000 as shown below :—
_
On account of
Indian Medical Service Officers and Medical
men already employed.
European Medical Practitioners
Clerks and establishment for inoculating
"officers.
•Chief Plague Medical Officer's Office
Tents and equipment
Inoculating fluid
"Transport charges
Travelling allowance
Pay of Extra Assistant Commissioners
Total including Rs. 19,100 for miscel-
laneous and unforeseen charges, say
Total expen-
diture in-
volved in
scheme now
put forward.
Rs.
1,21,250
3,06,250
35,000
1,400
62,000
2,15,000
30,000
60,000
14,000
8,64,000
EXPENDITURE WHICH WILL
PROBABLY BE INCURRED
IN THE ORDINARY COURSE
OF EVENTS DEBITABLE
TO
Plague
allotment.
Rs.
1,01,700
...
12,750
12,000
90,000
11,600
25,000
2,60,000
Other
heads.
Rs.
3,350
250
3,000
...
...
15,000
23,000
EXTRA EXPENDITURE
( + ) OR SAVING (—) DUE
TO THE SCHEME FOR
SPECIAL INOCULATIONS
NOW PUT FORWARD
DEBITABLE TO
Plague
allotment.
Rs.
+ 29,700
+ 306,250
+ 21,650
+ 1,400
+ 40,000
+ 1,25,000
— 18,400
+ 10,000
+ 5,62,000
Other
heads.
Rs.
- 13,500
...
+ 350
...
+ 7,000
+ 10,000
+ 14,000
+ 19,000
As the amount available from the revenues of the Punjab fell short of the estimated
cost of the scheme by Rs. 5,48,000, it was necessary to obtain the sanction of the Govern-
ment of India to the proposed undertaking and to ask for an assignment to meet the
expenditure involved.
Communication with the Government of India.
66. The Government of India were accordingly addressed on June 30th, 1902, in a
letter in which after the reasons for passing;
the scheme and the arrangements for carrying
it out and the expenditure involved had been dealt with at length, the approval of the
Government of India was solicited, and the assistance necessary for carrying it into execu-
tion asked for.
The Government of India was further asked to depute 6 extra I. M. S. officers
to the Punjab for seven months and to obtain from England the 37 medical men required in
time to begin work on September Ist, 1902.
The Government of India replied to the letter on August Ist, approving the scheme
and sanctioning the necessary assignment. They also informed the Punjab Government
that the Secretary of State had been asked by telegram to send out by September Ist the 37
Medical Officers required, and that arrangements should be made for the deputation for
seven months from the same date of the 5 extra officers of the I. M. S. asked for.
Before replying officially the Government of India had indicated that the pro-
posals of the Punjab Government would most probably be accepted, and intimation to this
effect was sent to the Director-in-Chief, Plague Research Laboratory, as early as July 12th,
in order to enable him to commence his arrangements for the supply of prophylactic, and on
July 14th he was able to state that the matter of flasks would apparently be settled
satisfactorily.
It will be remembered that the ability of the Laboratory to meet the requirements of
the Punjab had been stated to be dependent only upon the supply of the necessary number
of flasks, and on the receipt of this assurance, which was confirmed shortly afterwards by
Mr. Haffkine, who wrote acknowledging a telegram informing him that the scheme had
been sanctioned, the Punjab Government was abled to make arrangements for the carry-
ing of the scheme into execution.
Commencement of preparations.
67. • Deputy Commissioners of all districts in which it was contemplated to carry out
inoculation on a large scale were immediatlely
addressed. They were supplied with details
of the scheme, and while they were asked to do all in their power to ensure the success of
the scheme, it was enjoined upon them that compulsion was in no case to be used to induce
the people to be inoculated.