8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL BACTERIOLOGIST
The following table shows the results obtained in the
field from inoculations with anthrax serum:—
PROVINCE |
Number of outbreaks in |
NUMBER OF ANIMALS WHICH DIED UNINOCULATED IN COURSE OF DISEASE |
NUMBER OF ANI- MALS INOCULATED |
NUMBER OF ANIMALS WHICH DIED AFTER IN- OCULATION |
Percentage of deaths in |
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REMARKS |
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Equines |
Bovines |
Others |
Equines |
Bovines |
Others |
Equines |
Bovines |
Others |
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Bengal |
6 |
.. |
30 |
.. |
5 |
160 |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
|
Assam |
46 |
23 |
442 |
6 |
359 |
3,258 |
197 |
.. |
6 |
.. |
.. |
|
Bihar and Orissa |
13 |
.. |
42 |
.. |
.. |
1,759 |
.. |
.. |
2 |
.. |
.. |
|
Central Provinces |
2 |
.. |
20 |
.. |
302 |
.. |
.. |
3 |
.. |
.. |
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Sind, Baluchistan and |
5 |
.. |
.. |
368 |
.. |
.. |
453 |
.. |
.. |
32 |
.. |
|
Bombay |
1 |
.. |
13 |
.. |
.. |
460 |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
|
Mysore State |
8 |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
168 |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
|
TOTAL |
81 |
23 |
547 |
374 |
364 |
6,107 |
650 |
.. |
11 |
32 |
0.18 |
In the following table figures for the year under report
are compared with those of the previous five years, and with
the average for that period:—
YEAR |
Manufacture |
Issue |
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1911-12 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
28,722 |
6,070 |
1912-13 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
2,658 |
6,718 |
1913-14 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
3,920 |
20,097 |
1914-15 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
18,640 |
20,883 |
1915-16 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
71,870 |
48,337 |
Average of the previous five years |
. |
. |
. |
25,162 |
20,421 |
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1916-17 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
11,029* |
29,069 |
* Manufacture of this serum suspended pending issue of the last year's balance of
23,533 doses.
Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia serum and vaccine. One
hundred and twenty-two thousand nine hundred and fifteen
doses of hæmorrhagic septicæmia serum were manufac-