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
which inoculation was
undertaken

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
inoculated bovines

REMARKS

Equines

Bovines

Others

Equines

Bovines

Others

Equines

Bovines

Others

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

..

..

Sind, Baluchistan and
Rajputana

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
doses

Issue
doses

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

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-