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5. The net expenditure on calves was Rs. 3,150, compared with Rs. 2,359 in 1893-94. The
causes of the excess this year, apart from the fact that 94 more calves were vaccinated, have been
stated in paragraph 3.
Cost of feeding.
6. The cost of feeding the calves was Rs. 381-13, while in the previous year it was Rs. 287-6-6.
In addition to the much larger number of calves inoculated this
year, many, which were ill after taking lymph, had to be kept a
considerably longer time than usual.
Miscellaneous.
7. The expenditure this year under this heading was Rs. 1,817-8-8. In 1893-94 it was
Rs. 1,731-7-3. Of this amount, the cost of vaccine tubes was
Rs. 1,425-0-3, service stamps and telegrams Rs. 51-4-0, and contingen-
cies Rs. 341-4-5.
Establishment.
8. The establishment consists of a second-grade Hospital Assistant, with a special allowance
of Rs. 20 a month, a clerk at Rs. 10, a loader at Rs. 12, a coolie at
Rs. 9, and a coolie and sweeper at Rs. 9 each, engaged for 7 months
in the year. The cost was—
Hospital Assistant ... ... ... ... ...
Other establishment ... ... ... ... ...
An additional coolie for six months paid by Manipur ... ...
Rs.
841
478
54
a.
12
0
0
p.
4
0
0
The amount drawn by the Hospital Assistant includes a sum of Rs. 76-12-4 due to him on
account of allowance for the previous year. In 1893-94, a Hospital Assistant drawing only Rs. 35
per month was at the depôt from 1st April to 10th August, which caused a diminution of about
Rs. 95, as compared with the year under review.
Inoculation of calves.
9. Five hundred and eighty-five calves were inoculated. In 21 of these, the operation failed :
16 died before taking lymph, from 24 lymph was not taken on
account of illness, and the vesicles on 46 were not up to the
standard required. The number of calves, therefore, which yielded lymph was 478. On account
of the unfavourable reports received in January, the greatest care was taken to procure lymph only
from vesicles which came up to a high standard of excellence.
10. The number of tubes loaded was 250,249, an average of 532.4 per calf, compared with
238,282 in 1893-94, an average of 515.7.
Distribution.
11. Lymph was distributed to all the Civil Surgeons in the province, including those of Manipur
and the Lushai Hills. The average weekly supply to the various
Civil Surgeons was as follows :
Sylhet ... ... ... ... ... ...
Dhubri
...
...
...
...
...
Kámrúp ... ... ... ... ...
Darrang
...
...
...
...
...
Nowgong ... ... ... ... ...
Sibságar ... ... ... ... ...
Cachar
...
...
...
...
...
Nága Hills ... ... ... ... ...
Gáro
„
...
...
...
...
...
North Lushai Hills ... ... ... ... ...
Manipur
...
...
...
...
...
Khasi and Jaintia Hills, fortnightly ... ... ... ...
1,000
1,100
1,050
660
713
627
718
386
202
100
600
150 in slack
season
300 in working
season.
In addition to the above, occasional supplies of lymph were sent, on requisition, to the medical
officers of native regiments, medical officers of tea gardens, missionaries and others.
Quality of lymph.
12. Contrary to previous experience, the first three supplies of lymph were of excellent quality,
and, with very few exceptions, it continued good up to the begin-
ning of January. During the greater part of January, however, and
for a few days in February, it was reported to be inert from most of the districts in the province,
Manipur, the Khasi Hills, and Darrang being exceptions.
As usual, contradictory reports were received : to give only one marked instance—in the
Nowgong district, with precisely the same lymph, two vaccinators had 70 and 100 per cent. of
successful cases, while three others each had 100 per cent. of unsuccessful, clearly showing that
vaccinators' reports are by no means always trustworthy.
The cause of the failure, which no doubt occurred during the period mentioned, was an
insufficiency of humanised lymph for vaccinating the calves.
About 10,400 tubes of vaccine lymph had been asked for by Civil Surgeons, a number far larger
than had ever been supplied before, and the endeavour to furnish this large quantity, when the amount
of humanised lymph available was not sufficient for it, led to degeneration of the bovine lymph.
It is the safest course to use no lymph of beyond the third generation (the first generation being
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