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A list of all articles purchased in connection with the inoculation operations will be
found in the table below:—
Table showing the names and the number of all the articles purchased in connection
with the Inoculation Scheme of 1902-03.
Serial No.
I
2
3
4
S
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
Name of article.
Swiss Cottage tents, 10 feet by 10 feet
Miniature
do.
Servants' pals ...
Kábul field tents
Sowar's pals ...
Camp tables ...
Small tables ...
Chairs ...
Folding chairs ...
Charpáís (bed-steads)
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Bath-room furniture, sets including tubs
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
....
Boxes containing crockery and kitchen utensils
Towels
...
Dusters
...
Lamps ...
Lanterns ...
Inoculation boxes
Inoculating syringes
Spare pistons ...
Spare washers ...
Spare glass barrels
Spare needles ...
Catch forceps
Dissecting forceps
Pairs of scissors
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Ditto
for cutting lint, &c.
Carbolic acid ...
Lint . ...
Measure glasses
Half-minute thermometers
Sterelizing lamps
Cork-screws ...
Screw-drivers ...
Bowls ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Apparatus for taking thumb impressions
Record boxes
...
All articles of Stationary, &c.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Number or quantity of
articles purchased.
49
15
121
31
63
67
231
134
114
98
54
72
336
336
96
86
101
476
1, 800
1,800
200
3,700
119
103
110
110
311 lbs.
185 lbs.
96
149
117
110
110
307
330
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Remarks.
Medical staff.
69. The officers of the Indian Medical Service deputed for the scheme reported
themselves early in September, and in the
same month the medical practitioners who
had been engaged in England arrived at Bombay and were instructed to attend at the
Plague Research Laboratory, the authorities of which in response to the request of the
Punjab Government afforded them facilities for acquainting themselves with the method
in which the prophylactic was prepared.
The desirability of all these practitioners themselves submitting to inoculation was
pointed out, and most of them availed themselves of the opportunity afforded by their attend-
ance at the Laboratory to be inoculated.
All these officers were directed to report themselves at Ambala, where most of them
arrived about the middle of September and were given orders to proceed to their districts
in which they would be required to work.
Plague Manual.
70. A special manual was drawn up, in which after a review of the course of
plague in the Punjab detailed instructions
were given on the various heads required, for
example, the preaching of inoculation, the manner of performing the operation and the
method of obtaining statistics and maintaining records. As it was considered very desirable
to obtain as correct statistics as possible of the value of inoculation, elaborate instructions
were issued on this point. Extracts from the Plague Manual containing most of the
instructions are reproduced as an appendix (No. III) to this report.
Establishment.
71. Meanwhile clerks, Compounders and other establishment had been got together,
and all staff and establishment were ready
by the end of September.