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power-house for oil, petrol, etc., used on the plant. Sanction was accorded for
the installation of a storage battery which work is nearing completion.
Electric current will then be available at all hours for working of the Institute.
The working of the new underground cold storage room for lymph during the
year was very satisfactory. The expenditure incurred in its construction has
been fully justified by the results obtained.

In lieu of the land handed over to the Military during the war, a new
grazing ground of 72 acres was taken over from the Kurundwad State on 25th
October 1920. The Military Authorities have agreed to fence the land and
construct a bridge to connect up the land with the existing ground.

The Executive Engineer has raised a question as to the free quarters for
the staff. These quarters have been given free by Government since the
opening of the Institute and the concession (conceded in similar Institutions in
other Provinces) was compensatory for the inconvenient distance of the Institute
from Bazar, Schools for older children, and other amenities of the town. Their
duties require the presence of many of the staff at the Institute during all
hours.

The quality of the lymph produced at the Institute has been as hitherto
uniformly excellent in quality. Seed lymphs were supplied to Madras, Hydera-
bad (Deccan) and Bangalore Institutes. A strain of vaccine lymph was obtained
from the Local Government Board, Lymph Establishment, London, and
established as a stock lymph in the Institute.

1,362,965 doses of vaccine were issued from the Institute during the year
under report, showing a decrease of 128,360 as compared with last year. The
decrease in the issue was due to the smaller demand from Military Medical
Officers.

The gross expenditure of the Institute for the year amounted to Rs. 59,755
against Rs. 59,089 showing an increase of Rs. 666 on last year. The net
expenditure after deducting sale-proceeds was Rs. 26,462 against Rs. 27,379
in the previous year. The cost of lymph per dose manufactured works out at
9.48 pies and the cost per dose despatched, worked out at 10.87 pies.

The case and insertion success rates were 99.67 and 97.35, respectively,
against 99.58 and 97.19 in 1919-20.

9. The following table gives the results of different kinds of lymph
used:—

Cost of Vaccination
(Appendix I, Statement II).

10. The cost of vaccination excluding Aden came to Rs. 5,60,094 against
Rs. 5,12,480 in the previous year. The increase in
the expenditure is due to the grant of Temporary
and Provisional allowance on a larger scale and
temporary increase in pony allowance to Vaccinators. The cost of each
successful case of vaccination was annas fifteen and pies eleven against annas
fourteen and pie one in the previous year.