OOTACAMUND,
19th May 1894.
(Signed) M. A. LAWSON,
Government Botanist and Director.
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6TH JULY 1894, Nos. 481, 481A, 481B, 481C, REVENUE.
No. 12.
STATEMENT showing the Receipts and Charges on account of the Government Cinchona Planta
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tions, Nilgiris, for the year 1893-94 prepared in accordance with the instructions issued
in the Secretary of State's Despatch, No. 3, dated 11th February 1886.
Disbursements, &c.
Amount.
Receipts, &c.
Amount.
Value of bark in stock on 31st March 1893
(362,349 lb.) as under—
RS. A. P. To value of bark in stock on 31st March 1894
(268,144 lb.) as under
—
RS. A. P.
RS. A. P.
RS. A. P.
26,603 lb. of 1886-87 at 0 10 10 .069 perilb. 18,022 0 1
31,964 lb. of 1889-90 at 0 6 9701 perlb. 13,601 8 2
35,056 „ of 1807-88 „ 0 12 5. 385 „
27,275 3 5
57,313 „ of 1890-91 „ 0 8 11 .862 „ 32,197 5 10
26,009 „ of 1888-89 „ 0 10 1 . 120 „
16,407 5 6
40,487 „ of 1891-92 „ 1 6 6.365 „ 57,011 12 11
68,568 „ of 1889-90 „ 0 6 9 . 701 „
29,177 7 6
54,913 „ of 1892-93
0 10 6. 763
36,254 14 0
57,313 „ of 1.8A-91 „ 0 8 11
.
862 „
32,197 5 10
83,467 of 1893-94 „
,,
0 14 0.085 „ 73,070 13 8
40,487 „ of 1891-92 1 6 6 .365
57,011 12 11
108,313 „ of 1892-93 „ 0 10 6.763 ,,
71,510 13 4
Total 2,12,136 6 7
Total
2,51,602 0 7 Bark supplied to Madras Medical Department.
247 8 0
„ „
to Bombay „
320 0 0
To establishment and working. charges
73,070 13 8
„ „ to private parties „
138 0 4
To value of quinine and fehrifuge in stock on
31st March 1893.
Salo of seed and plants
65 10 0
80,633 15 10 Percentage of the quinologist fees
18 9 8
Miscellaneous
173 13 3
Febrifuge,
35,307 8 0
Quinine
33,066 3 7
Total
69,337 6 10
Value of quinine packets supplied to Collectors
but not recovered.
2,950 0 0
By value of quinine and febrifuge in stock on
31st March 1894
95,688 9 1
Loss on operations
25,194 7 7
Grand total 4,05,306 14 1
Grand total of all receipts includ-
ing the items in stock
4,05,306 14 1
ORDER-dated 6th July 1894, No. 481, Revenue.
Recorded.
2. The expenditure of the year
exceeded the receipts by Rs. 3,734, but
if credit be taken for the full value of quinine supplied to Collectors for distribution
and sale, the deficit on the year's working is reduced to Rs. 784. The charges
(Rs. 73,071) were more than Rs. 5,800 below the corresponding figure in the previous
y e a r a n d n e a r l y R s . 1 , 0 0 0 b e l o w t h e r e v i s e d e s t i m a t e . M r . L a w s o n r e p o r t s t h a t a l l
branches of expenditure have been kept within the lowest possible limits and the fact
that the total charges of the year were less than those incurred during any of the
three preceding years is satisfactory.
3. It is, however, observed that the output of quinine and febrifuge was con
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siderably below the value secured in 1892-93, even supposing that the rates of sale
had remained unaltered. Thus, in 1892-93, 4,933 lb. of sulphate of quinine and
3,139 lb. of febrifuge were manufactured as against 2,000 lb. and 5,775 lb., respectively,
in 1893-94. Calculating these outturns at Rs. 14 per lb. for quinine and Rs. 10
per lb. for febrifuge (the rates fixed for sale to Medical depôts during the current
year), the value of the manufacture for 1892-93 comes to Rs. 1,00,452 and that of
1893-94 to Rs. 85,750. The diminution in the outturn of quinine is presumably
due to the falling off in the indents received from the Madras Medical Department. The
supply of quinine to Burma is now under correspondence with the Chief Commissioner,
and it is probable that a ready market will be found in that Province. This fact
was noticed in the Director's report for 1891-92 (G.O., dated 22nd September 1892,
No. 995), but the Madras Government was unwilling to take the initiative, The
Miscellaneous.