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pyroplasma, but modifications in the specific characters of the hæmotozoon
probably are developed during its passage through the different species. Up to
the present the organism has been discovered in the blood of equines,
bovines, buffaloes, camels, elephants, monkeys, ovines, canines and many other
small animals, not only in one district but in animals brought from the Punjab
and United Provinces alike. Further, it has been observed in the blood of the
five months' fætus, showing that it can pass through the walls of the placental
vessels. The symptoms produced in man owing to its presence are:—Slight
accessions of fever, hæmicrania, sweating after the least exertion, but in com-
plicated cases, hæmaturia or hæmoglobinuria are usually present. A full
account of the life history of this pyroplasma found and its connection with
the ixodes, culicidæ and the diptera generally, together with the symptoms
produced in the host, will be published separately. A paper entitled "Can
the Piroplasma Bigeminum find a habit at in man," now in the press, will be
published in the course of a few days in the Centralblatt für
Bakteriologie
Originale.
SECTION III.
Application of the result of research.
24. During the year under report 5,20,925 c. c. of anti-rinderpest serum
have been prepared and 5,71,740 c. c. or 1,14,798 doses were issued as per
detail shown in Appendix I.
The serum prepared is equivalent to 1,22,061 doses as against 73,288 doses
during the past official year. The demand for this serum was greater by
27,007 doses than that of the last year.
25. The following results have been collected from the reports and returns
received at this office during the year under report concerning the serum
injections carried out by the serum alone method in Bengal, Punjab, United
Provinces, Central Provinces, Madras, North-West Frontier Province, Assam
and Burma.
26. Bengal—
Injections with serum alone.
DISTRICT.
Darjeeling
. . .
Mymensingh . . .
Rajshahi . . .
Chittagong
.
.
.
Do. (Hill Tracts) .
Jessore .
Gya (Municipality) .
Jalpaiguri
.
.
Khulna
....
Birbhum
.
.
Hoogly
....
Coock Behar State .
Cooch Behar .
Neakhali
.
.
.
Muzaffarpore
(Sitamarhi
Sub-Division.)
Saran
....
24-Parganas . . .
Midnapore
.
.
.
Palamau . . .
TOTAL
Number
of villages
of which
cattle
inoculated.
17
10
6
14
4
3
1
1
9
1
1
5
1
6
4
4
6
2
1
96
Number
of cattle
inoculated.
856
454
515
2,011
1,019
181
45
103
868
237
120
188
14
280
1,846
376
237
84
20
9,454
Date or period of inocula-
tion.
May 1903, and Janu-
ary, February 1904.
May, June, October,
November 1903, and
March 1904
May, August, Septem-
ber 1903, and March
1904.
May, June, August,
October, November
1903, January and
March 1904.
July 1903
May 1903
June 1903
Do.
July and September
1903.
July 1903
Do.
August 1903, and Feb-
ruary 1904.
October 1903 .
August and October
1903.
September 1903
November and Decem¬
ber 1903.
December 1903, and
January, February
and March 1904.
December 1903
March 1904 .
Number of
inoculated
cattle died.
22
17
6
19
39
2
2
2
30
...
...
6
2
11
1
9
6
...
174
REMARKS.
Cut of this number
186 were patients of
the Bengal Veteri-
nary College.
Death rate 1.84 per
cent.
On reference to the above table, it may be observed that the cattle belong-
ing to the inhabitants of 96 villages 9,454 in number were injected by the