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by the "serum alone method," in 17 villages 1,814 were injected without a death
occurring from rinderpest. No information, however, is on record which
would indicate whether these latter injections were performed in the absence
of rinderpest and as a precautionary measure only.
One may mention that the total deaths, viz.,—112 in 10,190 animals
injected with serum, instead of being an argument against the utility of the
protective serum, is strongly in favour of the good work accomplished by it,
for in any outbreak of the disease whatever moment may be selected for the
injection of the animals, a certain number must always have the contagium of
the disease incubating in their systems.
56. Punjab.—
Injections with Serum alone.
DISTRICT.
Lahore ..
Umballa . .
Rawalpindi .
Gujranwala .
Firozepore .
Sialkote
.
Gurdaspur
.
TOTAL .
Number
of villages
of which
cattle
inoculated.
28
3
44
3
40
8
1
127
Number
of cattle
inoculated.
7,763
100
4,204
770
10,476 *
532 †
16
23,861
Date or period of inoculation.
October and December, 1902,
and January to March, 1903
October, 1902
October to December, 1902, and
March, 1903.
December, 1902, and January,
1903.
December, 1902, to March, 1903,
March, 1903 . . .
Ditto
.
.
.
.
Number of
inoculated
cattle died.
2
...
...
2
...
...
...
4
REMARKS.
* 2,995 goats.
† 125 „
Death rate 0.0019 per
cent.
Of 23,861 animals including 3,120 goats belonging to 127 villages, a
mortality of 4 or 0.0019 per cent. is recorded in 20,741 cattle against no deaths
in goats.
57. As no information is recorded as to whether all the animals affected
with rinderpest or otherwise, were treated with the protective serum it is only
natural to suppose that the injections of serum in the Punjab were only carried
out in the animals of the herd which presented at the time of the opera-
tion no symptoms of the disease. Even then out of so vast a number as over
twenty thousand it is difficult to imagine that only 4 animals or 0.0019 per
cent. should have had in their systems the contagium of rinderpest, after having
been exposed to the infected herd. The above mentioned casualties would
point to the cattle of the Punjab being the possessors of a high degree of
natural or acquired immunity.
58. United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.—
Injections with Serum alone.
DISTRICT.
Partabgarh . .
Kheri . .
Gorakhpur * .
Dehra Dun . .
TOTAL .
Number
of villages
of which
cattle
inoculated.
1
7
15
1
24
Number
of cattle
inoculated.
8
404
814
127
1,353
Date or period of inoculation.
December, 1902 . . .
December, 1902, and March,
1903.
February and March, 1903 .
March, 1903 . . . .
Number of
inoculated
cattle died.
...
...
2
...
2
REMARKS.
(One animal had the
disease at time of in-
oculation.)
Death rate 0.015 per
cent.
* (Before inoculation, out of 412 cattle affected, 147 died at 35.6 per cent. and 265 recovered at 64.4 per cent.
After inoculation, 36 uninoculated cattle were affected and 16 died at 44.4 per cent.
In the abstract of particulars regarding injections of 1,353 head of cattle
in 24 villages belonging to four districts of the United Provinces a mortality of
2 only, or 0.015 per cent. is recorded and of the two animals which succumbed,
the disease was recognised in a mild form at the time the injection was made.