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Expenditure on calves.
5. The net expenditure on calves was Rs. 3,507, against Rs. 2,728 of the previous year.
The increase is due to the fact that 21 more calves were inoculat-
ed than in the previous year, and that there are 118 calves still
remaining. Owing to a diminished mortality and a better average number of tubes loaded from
each calf, so many calves were not required as were expected, hence the large number in hand.
These will be available for the ensuing year.
Feeding charges.
6. Feeding charges were Rs. 283-7-6, against Rs. 247-11-9
of the previous year.
Miscellaneous.
7. The expenditure under this head was Rs. 2,781-5-2, against Rs. 2,812-9-4 of the previous
year. The decrease is due to a smaller expenditure on tubes.
There was a large balance of empty tubes in hand at the
beginning of the year.
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. 15, a
coolie at Rs. 9 for the year, and two temporary coolies at
Rs. 9 each for seven months, and an additional coolie at Rs. 9 was entertained for seven months
from Manipur State. Compensation for dearness of grain was given to a coolie. The cost of
establishment was as follows :
Hospital
Assistant...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Other
establishments...
...
...
...
...
Manipur
coolie...
...
Rs
765
549
63
Practically there has been no change in the numbers of the establishment since the depôt was
started in 1890, with the exception that Manipur State has paid the wages of a coolie for seven
months each year since 1891-92.
The work has increased very much in the last three years, and it has been found impossible
to carry out the duties without making further temporary arrangements. Sometimes as many
as 4,000 to 5,000 tubes have to be loaded in a single day which keeps the loader working from
morning till 10 p.m., even though he gets assistance from one of the coolies who has been taught
to load. It is absolutely necessary to have two loaders.
An extra coolie is also required to tend the calves.
The cost of this increase in establishment will be—
Pay of a second loader, at Rs. 12 per mensem... ...
Pay of an extra coolie for seven months, at Rs. 9 per mensem...
Total...
Per annum-
Rs.
144
63
207
Inoculation.
9. Three hundred and ninety calves were inoculated, of which one operation failed, 13 died
before lymph had been taken, and from 14 lymph was not taken
either on account of illness or because the vesicles were not quite
up to the mark.
Number of tubes loaded.
10. The total number of tubes loaded was 353,243, and the average number obtained
from each calf was 975.80. In the previous year the total
number of tubes loaded was 309,890, and the average number
obtained from each calf was 916.83.
Distribution of lymph.
11. Lymph was distributed regularly to all the Civil Surgeons in the Province, including
Manipur and Lushai Hills, and to Doctor Macnamara,
Budlipar, Sibsagar, and occasionally to Medical Officers and
Managers of tea gardens, Medical Officer of 42nd Gurkha Rifles, and to the missionaries on
their requisitions. The regular weekly supply was as follows :
Sylhet
Cachar... ... ... ... ... ...
Dhubri... ... ...
Kamrup...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Nowgong...
...
...
...
...
...
Sibsagar... ... ... ...
Darrang...
...
...
...
...
...
Lakhimpur... ... ... ... ...
Naga Hills... ... ... ...
Garo „
...
...
...
...
...
...
Manipur...
...
...
...
...
...
Khasi and Jaintia Hills
...
Lushai Hills... ... ...
Tubes.
4,000
800
1,000
2,800
800
1,000
900
800
400
600
600
400 to 500
100