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Besides his ordinary duties he inspected from time to time the breeding bulls
(of which there were 4) in his own circle. He was present at the Cattle Show at
Sylhet in January, 1914, where he was one of the judges ; both in this Show and at
the Cattle Fair at Katigora near Badarpur he delivered short lectures on contagious
diseases, the value of inoculation, etc.
During the year under report he was deputed to Sonepur Fair (in Behar) for the
purchase of plough bullocks for the Agricultural Department.
(3) Babu Srish Chandra Ghosh was in charge of the Gauhati circle throughout
the year and up to 1st May, 1913, he also held charge of the Dibrugarh circle during
the absence on leave of the permanent incumbent, Mr. Satya Charan Mukherjee.
During the year under report he was on tour for 1S1 days and visited 103 vil-
lages and Tea Estates in connection with outbreaks, etc. He travelled 5,331 miles
by rail, 1,199 miles by steamer and 1,529 miles by road and country boats.
During the year the work of the Assistants in his own circle were inspected by
him as follows :—
Gauhati 5 times; Dhubri, Goalpara, Bilashipara and Barpeta 4 times each; the
Assistants at Nowgong 3 times each and Shillong and Garo Hills twice each.
During the year he insppcted the Upper Shillong Agricultural Farm twice. He
also attended the Shillong Agricultural Show and a cattle market at Protapganj
Goalpara).
Besides his work of inspection, etc., he enquired into outbreaks of Surra at Gau-
hati and Shillong and suspected Glanders in Sibsagar district. He accompanied
the Officiating Superintendent, Mr. Hickey, to Naharkatiya (Lakhimpur district) in
connection with an outbreak of Anthrax among the elephants of the Saw-mills
there.
42 Babu Bhudhar Chandra Chatterjee was the only Staff Veterinary Assistant
during the year, as owing to the inadequacy of district staff the other post had to be
kept vacant.
He was on tour for 70 days and visited 39 villages. He treated 376 animals for
contagious and non-contagions diseases; and inoculated 9 ponies against Anthrax, 8
cattle against Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia and 1,531 against Rinderpest.
At the beginning of the year he was on deputation at Sadiya and on the Mishmi
road to attend an outbreak of Rinderpest among the Public Works Department
and Commissariat bullocks and was also deputed to Dibrugarh and Karimganj. He
worked in connection with the Sirra outbreaks and with some diseases of elephants.
In February last he also attended the Assam Valley Light Horse Camp at Dibrugarh
where a camp Veterinary Hospital was opened and 41 cases were treated for various
diseases.
43. Of the 6 posts sanctioned for the Reserve Veterinary Assistants only 5
could be entertained, as one post had to kept vacant throughout for want of a suitable
man.
One of the Reserve was deputed under special orders of the Administration to
work in the Mishmi road from the 13th October, 1913, to the end of the year.
Besides having been employed in leave vacancies in districts, Reserve Veterinary
Assistants had also to be deputed to the headquarters station and interior of the fol-
lowing districts to supplement the work of the local staff:—Khasi and Jaintia
Hills, Naga Hills, Lushai Hills, Goalpara, Kamrup, Sibsagar, Mishmi road
(Lakhimpur) and Garo Hills.
The Reserve Veterinary Assistants while on tour visited 199 villages, inocu-
lated 3,350 animals and treated 3,479 animals for contagions and non-contagious
diseases.
PART V.—EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
44. Table XIV (a) —The cost of the Department as stated by the Comptroller
of Assam was Rs. 78,237-9-8 and shows an increase by Rs. 15,024-6-11 over the
previous year. The contribution of Rs. 10,000 towards the up-keep of the Bengal
Veterinary College has not been included in the expenditure under Veterinary
Instruction.
PART VI.—GENERAL REMARKS.
45. The work of the Department has steadily progressed during the year—-its
scope is gradually increasing. The supply of serum has been limited due to the
break-down of machinery at the Imperial Laboratory, Muktesar.