Station.) Removing manure Temporary Assis ance. (When the Directors take their Annual holidays 88 St Incidental expenses Ivory "points" and other apparatus £100 Supply of calves, £1 each, (paid to butcher who sends the calf).
Keep of calves and incidental expenses from 30s. to £2 (calf) each.
As it is not proposed at first at least to combine at the Council's Vaccine Station in Shanghai the cultivation of calf lymph with human. vaccinations, the above estimate of the cost of maintenance of the London Station will bear considerable reduction. The services of matron, and probably also of a clerk, might altogether be dispensed with. The vast of the calves und their maintenance at the Quarantine and Vaccine Stations are serious items. With regard to the cost, I note that the butcher who lends the animals receives £1 for each, and this though the calves ure only obtained for a fortnight and all regularly gain in weight daring their stay at the station—an average gain in the ase of bulls 18. ibs, hielfers S7ibs. As to the feoding, the calves consume a great deal of milk, and cannot be fed otherwise: the cost of their keep would certainly be greater in Shanghai than in London, but in Shanghai again their number would be diminished; it might be found impossible to carry on calf vaccination durin, the hot weather.
The vast of the building I must Leave to be estimated by the servants of the Council whose duty it is to supply such information, A consideration of the plans which T enclose supplemented by the details given in this letter, would probably enable Mr. Mayne to make at least a rough ate of the cost. esti he situation of the station would not really ben matter of much importance so long as the work done there was confined to the cultivation, storage and exportation of calf Jymph.
In the tabular statement which follows, I have en savored to arrange the plant, its cost, etc., in such a way as to admit of easy referee The articles remunerated are the most expensive of those which in my opinion are absolutely essential to start an Animal Vaccine Station; additions would be needed as the work grew in our hands, or as the original stock wore out.
1,—Tables on which the calves are secured. Maple & Ca,, Limited, 142-150, Tottenham Court Road. "'£23,10 each table;'two needed.
2.—Straps for securing calves to the tables with head stalls for the calves. John Unite, 291-293 Edgware Road, W. €3 would need to be spent on this item, 3.—Boiler, for boiling milk for the calves, with six galvanised feeding pails, Comyn Ching & Ca., 54-58 Castle Street, Long Acre, W.C. £26.15 (including tin lined packing se and delivery on board shi 4—Hot box used in sterilizing "tubes," etc., copper with wire trays; Grillin & Sons, Ltd., 22, Garrick St., Covent Garden; from £3.13.6 up to 5.—Weighing machine for weighing the calves; W. & Avery & Sons, 14-16, Cow Cross St.; £9.1 with packing case.
6.—Air pump for rapidly drying " points Griffin & Sous (as above); from £3.16.6 to £6.10.
"Points" and Tubes" on and in which lymph is collected; £5.
§.-~Thermometers, used in taking the temperature of thet cat Charles Baker, 243, holborn 5 £1.
Sesemavn, Duke St., Manchester Square; six—Clanup forceps for vesicles; Krohne would be needed, at 15/ each £4.10, 10,—Scalpels, Lance: s and Razors (the last, used for shaving the calves); Charles Baker {as above); sey £3, Besides the above, about ten pounds would need to' be spent in such articles as measuring glasses, glass covers, boiling and filtering stands, flasks, watch glasses, ete., etc., ete. Altogether, and without the purchase of a Microscope, the Council could not count on a less expenditure than £150 for the plant needed to start the Station.
Should the Council decide to begin the work at an early date, I could at once purchase the necessary agents Messrs. John Pook & Ca.. 8, Jeffreys plant, through their Square, St. Mary Axe. I will do this on receipt of the telegraphic message Vacca," but_this word must. be wired without delay as I leave England on the 18th of October.
have registered my address with the Eastern Company, 50, Old Broad under the words "Hysteron, London, to enable me if necessary to reply, this cater should also be registered with the Telegraph Authorities at Shanghai. If no of collecting information, and. will vary the message is sent I shall still continue the work
source as opportunity is afforded me.
Thave the honour to he, Sir, Your obedient servant, Epwazp Hespensos, Jous Maccrecor, Esy.y
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