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27 died subsequently. There were thus 34 deaths amongst calves in 1915-16.
Of these, 22 occurred from pleuro-pneumonia, six from akra, one from haemorrhagic
septicimia, one from black quarter, one by eating poisonous grass, one from
weakness, one from snake-bite and one from fall from a hill. To check the spread of
haemorrhagic septicimia, the services of a veterinary inspector and a veterinary
assistant were secured and all calves inoculated against this disease.
The total quantity of crude lymph obtained from the 358 calves successfully
vaccinated during the year under report was 16,868.7 grammes, i. e. 47.1 grammes
per calf as against 19,237.2 grammes obtained from 538 calves or 35.7 grammes
per calf in 1914-15. The average yield per calf was thus larger in 1915-16
than the preceding year by 11.4 grammes, which is very satisfactory.
From this crude lymph 95,519.7 grammes of glycerinated lymph and 2,236'5
grammes of glycerine paste were prepared whereas in the preceding year 108,932.4
grammes of glycerinated lymph, 2,408.2 grammes of glycerine paste, and 8.5
grammes of lanoline paste were prepared. There being no demand for lanoline
paste during the year under report, none was prepared. The decrease in the
quantity of lymph manufactured at, and issued from, the dépôt in 1915-16 as
compared with 1914-15 is chiefly due to the fact that a lymph dépôt having been
established at Namkum in the province of Bihar and Orissa, the supply of lymph
to the districts of that province, the Namkum lymph dépôt, and the Dinapur
hospital was no longer required.
These districts and institutions purchased
121,355 tubes of lymph and 24,504 grammes in bulk, costing Rs. 9,192, from
this dépôt in 1914-15. Against this loss of sale it was expected last year that the
seven districts of these provinces, namely Mainpuri, Cawnpore, Bahraich, Almora
Garhwal, Ghazipur, and Fatehpur, still retaining arm-to-arm vaccination would
adopt calf-lymph vaccination in 1915-16. This expectation has been fulfilled
except in the case of Garhwal, which for want of funds retains the arm-to-arm
method of vaccination, but the income from these districts does not compensate
the loss incurred by the stoppage of sales to Bihar and Orissa, even though 47
districts out of 48 purchased lymph from the dépôt in 1915-16 and the cost of this
lymph amounted to Rs. 19,299 as against Rs. 17,521 in 1914-15.
All the 84 municipalities and 47 (vide paragraph 14) notified areas purchased
their supplies of lymph from the dépôt, but there was a further decline in the
quantities purchased in 1915-16—only Rs. 5,461 worth lymph having been sold to
these bodies as against Rs. 6,098 in 1914-15 and Rs. 6,376 in 1913-14. The decrease
was marked in the hill stations of Naini Tal, Mussooree, Almora, and Dehra Dun and
in Cawnpore, Lucknow, Benares and Budaun. Several native states, court of wards,
cantonments, private persons and the Chief Medical Officer, East Indian Railway,
also purchased lymph to the value of Rs. 3,086 against Rs. 2,949 in 1914-15.
Lymph to the value of Rs. 43 was sold to the Chief Medical Officer, Bombay,
Baroda and Central India Railway.
The contract grant for the supply of vaccine lymph to the military depart-
ment is Rs. 700 a year. In 1915-16 they obtained lymph to the value of
Rs. 967, these increased indents being in all probability due to extensive recruiting
on account of war, as out of the total sum, Rs. 318 worth lymph was obtained by
the Medical Officer, Gurkha Recruiting Dépôt, Gorakhpur, alone. The excess of
Rs. 267 over the annual allotment cannot therefore be included in the income of
the dépôt.
In 1915-16 the sale proceeds of lymph from the dépôt amounted to Rs. 28,861
(excluding Rs. 267, the price of lymph supplied to the military department in
excess of the payment made by them, and including Rs 5, the price of lymph supplied
to the Health Officer, Gaya), against Rs. 36,460 (including Rs. 9,192 for the
lymph sold to Bihar and Orissa) in 1914-15. The income derived from the sale
of calves and milk, etc., in 1915-16 was Rs. 2,195 against Rs. 2,714 in 1914-15—
the total income being Rs 31,056 against Rs. 39,174 in the preceding year.
The total expenditure on the dépôt in 1915-16 amounted to Rs. 21,460
against Rs. 20,703 in the preceding year. The increase of Rs. 757 in expenditure
notwithstanding the discontinuance of lymph supply to Bihar and Oríssa and the
consequent diminution in the number of calves purchased was chiefly due to (a) a
sum of Rs. 2,631 having been paid for a battery, a cylinder for anhydous ammonia
and tools, etc., for the engine house built in connection with the cold storage plant,
(6) purchase of an iron cart and provision for bullocks, (c) appointment of a mistri