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                                          APPENDIX A.

Annual Report of the Bovine Vaccine Depot, Shillong, for the year 1892-93.

Expenditure.

The total expenditure during the year was Rs. 6,314-6-4. There was expended on establish-
ment for Manipur the sum of Rs. 63-0-0, which is not included
in this. The expenditure is Rs. 1,100-7-3 less than that of 1891-92.
A statement showing the expenditure under the various heads is herewith attached.

Repairs of buildings.

2. These were of a minor nature and only cost Rs. 38-2.

Water supply.

3. A sum of Rs. 460 was expended on a force pump, piping and construction of a
reservoir. The water is pumped from a beautiful spring of fine
water into the reservoir at the top of the hill, and then distributed,
one pipe to the operating room, another to the stalls for inoculated calves, and the third to the
calf house. Each has its own cock. Having this good and plentiful supply of water saves labour
and enables the houses to be flushed and kept clean.

Animals.

4. During the year 458 calves were purchased at a net cost of Rs. 2,023-8. Manipur has not
been debited with any of this. Should the Local Government think
it necessary to do so, it may be done, but as the expenditure this
year is much less than last year, and there is a saving in the budget grant for 1892-93, it has
not been done. The only expenditure which Manipur has been called on to pay is the cost of one
servant for seven months, Rs. 63. The same contractors supplied the calves as in former years.
The initial cost of each calf was Rs. 7. After being operated on they were resold for the
greater part of the year for Rs. 3, but towards the end of the season for Rs. 2-8 and for a short
while Rs. 2, as the year had been very bad, and so many had died that the contractor would
have been out of pocket, and it would have been impossible to get him to supply calves unless he
could make something out of the transaction. The account of the calves during 1892-93 is —

5. A statement showing the mortality among the calves month by month is attached. The
mortality was chiefly between the months of November and March. There was a bad outbreak of
disease in July last, but fortunately it is the non-working season and there were very few calves in the
depôt, but every calf died that was there, so work was entirely stopped for about three weeks. The
deaths as compared with the last two years are :