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The following table collated from the statements received in this office,
will show the result of injections :—
40. Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia.
Injections with Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia serum.
Province.
Punjab and North-West
Frontier
.
.
United Provinces of Agra
and Oudh . .
Madras . .
Eastern Bengal and Assam .
Total .
Number of outbreaks
in which inoculation
was undertaken.
97
52
37
1
187
Number of animals which
died uninoculated in course
of outbreak.
Equines.
...
... 1
...
1
Bovines.
1,142
312
66
12
1,532
Others.
...
...
...
...
...
Number of animals
inoculated.
Equines.
...
...
...
...
...
Bovines.
30,897
4,153
679
376
36,105
Others.
...
...
...
...
Number of animals
which died after
inoculation.
Equines.
...
...
...
...
...
Bovines.
17
...
...
...
17
Others.
...
...
...
...
...
REMARKS.
Death-rate .047
per cent.
It may be observed from the above return that, out of 36,105 bovines,
injected with "serum alone" in 187 outbreaks, only 17 or 0.047 per cent. suc-
cumbed to Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia, after the injection of the Anti-Hæmor-
rhagic Septicæmia serum, although 1,532 had succumbed previous to its use.
41. Charbon Symptomatique.—During the year under report, both vac-
cines and a serum were prepared at Muktesar.
Doses of the 1st and 2nd vaccines
Doses of a second kind of vaccine
Doses of a serum .
. .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Total
.
.
.
.
2,030
12,000
3,839
17,869
Out of 2,030 doses of the 1st and 2nd vaccines, 930 were issued, as per
Appendix V, to the Superintendents of the various provinces for the purpose
of trial in the field, but it appears from the above officers' reports that the
same has not as yet been tested.
Further, the returns submitted by the Superintendents, Civil Veterinary
Department, Punjab and United Provinces, show that during the year, 4,651
and 260 bovines were injected with Blacklegoids in their respective Provinces
with two deaths in the former.
42. Mallein.—During the past official year about 11,276 doses of Mallein
(including 2,044 doses of Pseudo-mallein and 5,000 doses of untested) were
prepared at this Laboratory, as against 3,407 doses during the last year.
On reference to Appendix No. IV, it will be noted that the total issue
during 1906-07 of English, French and Muktesar Mallein was 72, 20 and 3,583
doses respectively from the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory.
43. Tuberculine.—During the year 1906-07, 30 doses of Tuberculine
were issued, 20 to the Principal, Veterinary College, Bombay, 10 to the Inspect-
ing Veterinary Officer, Bombay Command, Poona.
44. Tetanus toxin.—For the purposes of hyperimmunizing horses for the
production of Tetanus anti-toxin 7,540 doses Were prepared. Two horses out of
four hyperimmunized have already furnished 22,164 c. c. tetanus anti-toxin,
which will be tested as to necessary dose.
45. On reference to Table XV, the average cost of each dose, calculated
on the total output of sera and other prophylactics against the budget grant
sanctioned for the year under review, comes to R0-3-8, a highly satisfactory
figure, as the expenditure of preparing such a dose at this Laboratory during
1904-05, was R0-8-4.
If Government had been obliged to purchase the various sera aud prophy-
lactics now prepared in quantities at Muktesar, in the open market, a sum of
R6,08,833 would have been expended, calculating each dose at R1, the rates
sanctioned by Government for foreign countries ; but by the working of the
Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory at an annual cost of R1,41,624 during the
past year, a saving of R4,67,209 accrued. But as the Cape Government
charges 2 shillings per dose R1-8, the saving at this figure amounts to
R7,71,626.
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