(7)
There was no increase in the number of the subordinate Veterinary staff
during the year under report except for a very short period, when establishment
for the separate office of the Superintendent, North-West Frontier Province, was
engaged and then one Veterinary Inspector was sanctioned for the office, but it
was disbanded at very short notice as the separation of the two circles was
further postponed and the strength of the staff reduced to the previously
sanctioned scale before the end of the year under report.
No local men were sent for training in the Punjab Veterinary College
this year.
PART V.—EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
34. The expenditure of the Department is given in Table XIV-A.
The figures are, as usual, supplied by the Accountant-General, Punjab and
North-West Frontier Province.
GENERAL REMARKS.
During the year under report, both the Veterinary and clerical staff have
been very busy and with the exception of a few have worked very well. I would
like to mention, in particular, the names of Said Hakim Shah, Veterinary Ins-
pector, Peshawar Division and Bhai Sochet Singh, Veterinary Inspector, working
as a Personal Assistant of the Superintendent, North-West Frontier Province,
though the latter only belongs to the cadre of the Civil Veterinary Department,
Punjab. Both of these inspectors have worked extremely well during the year
under report.
During the days when a separate office for the North-West Frontier
Province was opened at Rawalpindi, it was seen that even the two separate
establishments could cope with great difficulty with the work which the present
staff sanctioned for the North Punjab Circle has to do. The present clerical
staff is very much below strength and hardly enough for the North Punjab Circle
only for which one more clerk was recommended by Colonel J. Farmer, C.I.E ,
F.R.C.V.S., late Chief Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Punjab.
The appointment of a whole-time Superintendent of the Civil Veterinary
Department for the North-West Frontier Province was sanctioned by the Secret-
ary of State for India in 1915 but the post still remains vacant and the work is
being carried on by the Veterinary Officer in charge of the North Punjab Circle
without any allowance for this additional work.
The veterinary work has
enormously increased in the Frontier Province and more staff is very badly
required to cope with the work.
In particular, it is suggested that two Deputy Superintendents should
be appointed — one for the Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu districts and
the other for the rest of the Province. So far there are no Deputy Superin-
tendents in the Frontier Province against three in the Punjab, and the subor-
dinate staff is dissatisfied as there is no prospect of promotion above the rank
of inspector. Further, the pay of the subordinate staff has not yet been
raised to the scale sanctioned in the Punjab and this should be done as soon as
possible as the men cannot be expected to work well on a lower scale of pay
than that enjoyed by the members of the Department in the adjoining Province.
The herd of Awankari cattle maintained at Tarnab Farm has hitherto
not provided any bulls suitable for breeding. Several defects were pointed out
to the officer in charge of the herd and the method of feeding the young stock
does not appear to be correct. It is suggested that the herd should be placed
under the supervision of the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department.
Dhanni bulls are now easily obtainable from the Tallagang and Chakwal tahsils
of the Attock and Jhelum districts where the attention of the Department has
been devoted for the past two years to the improvement of this breed
Adverting to the figures of cases and contagious disease, and the deaths
therefrom given in the body of the report, I am of opinion that the mortality
could be still further reduced if the staff were largely increased in order that