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PART IV.—SUBORDINATE ESTABLISHMENT.
37. Table VII shows the total strength of subordinate staff employed in the
Department. The year commenced with a staff of 3 Inspectors and 36 Assistants ;
two new men joined the Department, one resigned his appointment and six Assistants
volunteered for and were deputed to military duty, one of the latter was returned as
unsuitable, so that at the end of the year 3 Inspectors and 32 Assistant formed the
total staff of the Department.
38. A brief summary of work done by the Inspectors and the Staff and Reserve
Veterinary Assistants is given below :—
(1) Babu Satya Charan Mukherjee, Veterinary Inspector, was in charge of the
Dibrugarh Circle throughout the year except for the period he was on leave—from the
1st April 1916 to the 11th June 1916.
He was on tour for 188 days, travelling 2,311 miles by rail, 2,095 miles by
steamer and country boat and 961 miles by road.
He had 13 Assistants under his charge and they were inspected as follows :—
Mangaldai four times, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Nazira , Sibsagar, Mariani, Jorhat, Gola-
ghafc, Badlipar, Tezpur and Behali three times each, North Lakhimpur twice and
kohima once.
During his tour he visited and revisited 143 villages and tea estates in connection
with the investigation of outbreaks and the results of inoculation. He inspected the
cattle of the Government Agricultural Farm at Jorhat and the breeding bulls and
Municipal bullocks in various places in his circle. He also attended cattle markets
and visited Municipal bullock sheds and pounds.
(2) Babu Guru Prasanna Sen, Veterinary Inspector, was in charge of the Silchar
Circle throughout the year. He was on tour for 162 days, travelling 2,505 miles by
rail, 248 miles by steamer, 1,187 miles by road and 582 miles by boat and visited 105
villages in investigating outbreaks of cattle-disease and the work of the Assistants.
He had 11 Assistants under his charge at the beginning of the year, but this
number fell to 7 owing to 4 Assistants leaving for military duty He inspected
the work of the Assistants as follows :—Silchar 6 times, Hailakandi 5 times, Karimganj,
Patharkandi, Sylhet, Maulvi Bazar and Habiganj four times each and Sunamganj
thrice. He had also to supervise the work of 7 Reserve Veterinary Assistants who
were deputed to his circle from time to time.
There were outbreaks of Rinderpest, Anthrax, Glanders and Foot-and-mouth
disease in his circle during the year. He examined 27 blood specimens for suspected
infective diseases, of which 9 were confirmed as Anthrax and 4 as Hæmorrhagic
Septicæmia. Owing to the difficulties and time lost in the transit of serum to the
Surma Valley a stock of serum was given to the Inspector who supervised its distri-
bution in that Valley.
(3) Babu Srish Chandra Ghosh, Veterinary Inspector, was temporarily in charge
of the Dibrugarh Circle from the beginning of the year till the 11th June 1916 and
thereafter in charge of the Gauhati Circle throughout.
In Gauhati Circle he was in charge of 8 district Assistants and the Staff and
Reserve Assistants attached to the headquarters office. He inspected the work of the
district Assistants as follows :—Gauhati and Nalbari four times each, Barpeta ,
Goalpara , Bilashipara , Dhubri , and Nowgong thrice each, Shillong twice. The
Assistants of the Dibrugarh Circle were inspected as follows :—Golag at twice,
Dibrugarh , Tinsukia , North Lakhimpur , Nazira , Sibsagar , Mariani, Jorhat, Tezpur
and Mangaldai once each.
During the year he was on tour for 201 days, travelling 8,983 miles by rail, 1,020
miles by steamer and 2,021 miles by road and visited 137 villages and tea estates.
"While on tour be attended a Garo cattle market and inspected breeding bulls in
his circle and visited the Agricultural Farms at Jorhat, Khagrabari and Kumarikhata
(Kamrup). He investigated outbreaks of suspected Glanders at Jorhat , Dhubri and
Shillong.
He also assisted the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Assam, and
the Imperial Pathologist in the investigation of kumri disease and also assisted in
laboratory and Hospital work at headquarters.
(4) Babu Bhudhar Chandra Chatterjee was the only Staff Veterinary Assistant
during the year. His main duty consisted in receiving, despatching and keeping
accounts of sera and stock of inoculation outfit, etc., in assisting the Superintendent
in Laboratory work and attending in and out-patients at the hospital.