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According to estimates furnished me by Doctor Youngberg, 

 rinderpest has cost the Philippine Islands in the last five years 

 in salaries of veterinarians, inspectors, and other expenses con- 

 nected with the control of this disease 1*2,330,823, distributed 

 as follov^s : 



1910 1*275,661 



1911 518,146 



1912 591,747 



1913 524,997 



1914 420,272 



Total 2,330,823 



The records of the Bureau of Agriculture, supplemented by 

 estimates made by Doctor Youngberg, show that the animals 

 that have died of rinderpest in the last five years were worth 

 ^=2,528,900. Thus the average annual cost to the Government 

 to enforce rinderpest quarantine in the last five years has 

 been =P466,165. The average annual loss to the live-stock owners 

 on account of deaths from rinderpest in the last five years has 

 been f*505,780. The average total annual cost of rinderpest 

 to the people of the Philippines has been 1*971,945. 



In one year, 1902, the loss from animals that died of rinderpest 

 is estimated to have been between ^=50,000,000 and 1*60,000,000. 

 "Many of the provinces lost from 50 to 80 per cent of their 

 carabaos and cattle." ' 



Doctor Youngberg estimates that 80 per cent of the infection 

 of the Islands is in the Provinces of Pampanga, Tarlac, and 

 Pangasinan, and that 80 per cent of the deaths, due to this 

 disease, occur in these provinces. Doctor Youngberg further 

 estimates that with proper facilities and support all the cattle 

 and carabaos in these provinces, 150,000 head, can be immunized 

 in from one to three years. The cost of this work is estimated 

 by Doctor Youngberg to be as follows : 



To the Insular Government for salaries of veteri- 

 narians, labor, equipment, etc 1*200,000 



To stock owners as insurance against loss of 



animals 150,000 



Total 350,000 



According to this estimate, which I am assured by Doctor 

 Youngberg is conservative, the cost to the Government to 

 immunize every animal in these provinces is slightly more than 

 one-half as much as it has cost the Government each year in 

 the last five years to maintain in these provinces a quarantine 



* Report of the Philippine Commission, 1902, p. 293. 



