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The average yield of crude lymph in 1914-15 per cow calf was 28.6 grammes
and that per buffalo calf 54.5 grammes as compared with 29.0 and 48.0 grammes
respectively in 1913-14. The average yield of lymph per cow calf was practically
the same as in the preceding year but that from a buffalo calf was much larger.
From the 19,237.2 grammes of crude lymph 108,932.4 grammes of glyceri¬
nated lymph, 2,408 2 grammes of glycerine paste and 8.5 grammes of lanoline paste
were prepared whereas in the preceding year 80,744.9 grammes of glycerinated
lymph and 2,233.8 grammes of glycerine paste were prepared.
The lymph issued from the dépôt in 1914-15 was always chloroformed for 40
minutes except when the water supply to the dépôt was interrupted.
During the year under report Benares, Allahabad, Jaunpur and Mirzapur
were added to the districts in which arm-to-arm vaccination has been entirely
replaced by calf lymph vaccination, bringing the total of districts using calf
lymph to 41. Ghazipur and Fatehpur, as in the preceding year, purchased
only small quantities of lymph. With the resettlement of the finances of
district boards and consequent standardization of the main heads of expenditure
referred to in paragraph 3 above, the remaining seven districts including Ghazipur
and Fatehpur, are expected to purchase calf lymph from the current year and to
do away with the arm-to-arm vaccination. The cost of lymph supplied to the
district boards in these provinces amounted to Rs. 17,521 in 1914-15 against
Rs. 16,042 in the preceding year.
As noted above, there were 84 municipalities and 48 notified areas during
the year 1914-15 and all of them purchased their supplies of lymph regularly
during the season, the cost amounting to Rs. 6,098 against Rs. 6,376 in 1913-14.
Several native states, court of wards, cantonments, private persons and the
medical officer, East Indian Railway, also purchased lymph to the value of
Rs. 2,949 against Rs. 3,228 in the preceding year.
The military department now pay Rs. 700 annually for the lymph supplied
to them.
In the province of Bihar and Orissa ten districts, the lymph dépôt at
Namkum and the Dinapore hospital purchased lymph to the value of Rs. 9,192
against Rs. 465 in 1913-14. As a lymph dépôt has now been established at
Namkum, the supply of lymph to this province has been stopped.
The sale proceeds of lymph from the dépôt in 1914-15 thus amounted to
Rs. 36,460 and those of milk and calves, &c., to Rs. 2,714 (total Rs. 39,174)
against Rs. 26,757 and Rs. 2,110 (total Rs. 28,867) respectively in 1913-14, an
increase of Rs. 10,307. Rupees 61 worth lymph was issued free against Rs. 50 in
1913-14. In expenditure on the dépôt there was an increase of only Rs. 3,275
over the preceding year, the amounts being Rs. 20,522, and Rs. 17,247 respectively.
This increase is easily explained by (a) the increase in the number of calves
purchased and hired, (b) increased expenditure on contingencies and stores
consequent upon the increased supply of lymph and (c) increase in the pay of the
superintendent. The annual output of lymph and 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 table below :—
Year.
1904-5
...
1905-6
...
1906-7
...
1907-8
...
1908-9
...
1909-10 ...
1910-11 ...
1911-12 ...
1912-13 ...
1913-14 ...
1914-15 ...
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
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
3
0
0
12
13
10
13
Glycerine
paste.
Gram¬
mes. Grs.
Nil.
Nil.
1,367
668
749
414
45
44
83
79
328
0
12
0
0
0
0
3
7
0
Lanoline
paste.
Gram¬
mes.
79
120
19
161
4
4
6
Grs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
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Arm-to-arm vaccination
replaced by calf lymph
vaccination in.—
Dis-
tricts.
...
...
...
...
4
8
13
22
35
37
41
Munici-
palities.
5
14
23
53
79
87
87
87
87
86
84
Notified
areas.
...
...
...
5
19
32
37
45
45
46
48
Income.
Rs.
106
2,057
3,527
6,118
8,572
8,527
14,211
18,780
24,019
28,867
39,174
Expendi-
ture.
Rs.
3,300
7,789
5,741
6,717
12,573
10,524
12,097
13,080
14,894
17,247
20,522
The total profits of the dépôt were for 1914-15, Rs. 18,652.