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APPENDIX A.
Annual Report of the Bovine Vaccine Depot, Shillong, for the year 1894-95.
Total expenditure.
1. The total expenditure during the year was Rs. 6,815-2, being Rs. 1,308-8-8 in excess of that
of the previous year. The causes of this excess will be explained
under the various heads below. A sum of Rs. 289 was expended for
Manipur, which is not included in the above.
Petty construction and repairs.
2. These cost Rs. 146, being about Rs. 80 more than the year before. Two small rooms
were added to the godown. The pump was very frequently out of
order, and Rs. 24 were spent on its repair. It will probably be
necessary to procure a new one.
Animals.
3. During the year, 569 calves were bought at a net cost of Rs. 3,150. None of this was
charged to Manipur. After being operated upon, the calves were
resold to the contractor for Rs. 3 each up to the end of November,
and for Rs. 2-4 each from December 1st to the end of the season. The latter rate was 4 annas less
than in previous years, the reduction being made, as the contractor was suffering loss from the
prevalence of epidemic cattle-disease in the district.
This epidemic diarrhoea caused the deaths of most of the 199 calves which died, the mortality
being about the same as occurred in 1890-91, another epidemic year. The contractor has, I believe,
been a heavy loser this year, owing to the large number of deaths among unprotected calves in his
hands. During the epidemic, he was given Rs. 9 for each calf, as otherwise he could not have
supplied them. The total amount lost to the depôt from the excessive mortality, and the lower re-
selling price was Rs. 310-2, and Rs. 157-8 were paid to the contractor for calves purchased at a price
higher than the contract rate. The contractor was a new man, and his work was by no means satis-
factory, as he frequently failed to supply calves, and also brought many weakly ones. A new con-
tract has been made with three men, the initial cost of each calf to be, as before, Rs. 7, but the
returning prices have been reduced to Rs. 2-8 and Rs. 2. . This reduction was undoubtedly necessary,
as the contractors cannot be expected to work without some profit. The people who supply calves
to the contractors have now become well aware that the Vaccine depôt must have calves, and have
raised their prices accordingly.
The account of the calves for 1893-94 and 1894-95 is as follows :
UNPROTECTED CALVES.
Balance in hand on April 1st
...
...
...
...
...
Purchased during the year ... ... ... ... ...
Total ... ... ... ... ...
Vaccinated during the year ... ... ... ... ...
Died ... ... ... ... ...
Total ... ... ... ... ...
Balance in hand on April 1st
...
...
...
...
...
1893-94.
11
515
526
491
8
499
27
1894-95.
27
564
591
585
6
591
...
PROTECTED CALVES.
Balance in hand on April 1st ... ... ... ... ...
Vaccinated during the year ... ... ... ... ...
Total ... ... ... ... ...
Sold ... ... ... ... ...
Died
...
...
...
...
...
Total ... ... ... ... ...
Balance in hand on April 1st ... ... ... ... ...
1
491
492
453
37
490
2
2
585
587
365
193
558
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4. The following table shows the mortality among the calves since the year 1890-91:
Unprotected calves
...
...
...
...
...
Protected
„
... In stall ... ... ...
After taking lymph ... ...
Total... ... ... ... ...
1890-91.
46
40
101
187
1891-92.
12
7
34
53
1892-93.
5
15
38
58
1893-94.
8
12
25
45
1894-95.
6
16
177
199
Of the protected calves, 16 died before the day on which their lymph would have been taken, 18 died
after that date, 64 when lymph had been taken, and 95, which had been handed over to the contractor
for isolation, died on his hands.