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No item is included to cover cost of autoclave, bleeding table, 

 and like apparatus which are permanent in character. Auto- 

 claves complete with gasoline heating apparatus are obtainable 

 for 300 pesos and bleeding tables cost 93 pesos each. At all 

 times during the work, several veterinarians and inspectors 

 have participated in the work to receive instruction in technique, 

 but as their presence was unnecessary for doing that work 

 their salaries and traveling expenses have not been included 

 in the statement of expenses. Only five days of the time of one 

 veterinarian during October is charged for, as he was employed 

 on the work in Laoag for the remainder of October. 



Estimates of the number of animals immunized per month 

 and the cost based upon the early period of the work do not 

 constitute an index of progress under conditions when it is 

 thoroughly under way. A scarcity of serum during the early 

 stages limits the economical employment of labor. Thus from 

 October 11, 1913, to January 25, 1914, an average- of 473 animals 

 per month was immunized at a cost of approximately 1.50 pesos 

 per head. During the four weeks beginning December 28, 790 

 animals were released. However, during this same month, 1,056 

 were injected, which will be approximately the number of im- 

 munized animals that will be released a month hence. Esti- 

 mating the expenses for salaries, labor, and supplies at 685 pesos 

 per month, which is the average for November and December, 

 it is concluded that the immunization of the 1,056 animals in- 

 jected during the month beginning December 28 cost the Bureau 

 65 centavos apiece. It is believed that this rate of progress 

 can be improved by instituting certain changes affecting the 

 amount of travel. 



Had the serum employed in Dingras and Solsona been pro- 

 duced in a serum laboratory, there would have been an added 

 expense up to January 25 of 21,932 pesos, reckoning the cost at 

 24 pesos per liter. This would have brought the expense up to 

 8.40 pesos per animal, a cost deemed prohibitive. 



At the inauguration of the work, the owners of the animals 

 to be immunized constructed the group of laboratory sheds 

 shown in Plate I, fig. 1. The bleeding is done in the partially 

 inclosed shed in the right background. Plate I, fig. 2, shows a 

 carabao in this shed, restrained for bleeding. The first stage 

 of placing an animal on the table is shown in Plate II, fig. 1, and 

 the method of bleeding in Plate II, fig. 2, Both of the last two 

 operations were photographed in the open air in order to obtain 

 better light. The veterinarian holding the needle and one assist- 



