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meetings of the Governing Body will normally be defrayed by the
Imperial Council of Agricultural Research in view of the fact that at
these meetings I represent the Advisory Board, not Bengal.
Animal Husbandry Classes.—As noted above, a series of these classes
were arranged to instruct Veterinary Assistant Surgeons in the duties
required of them to help the Live-Stock Expert and his staff in carry-
ing out the Rural Uplift 1,000 Bull Scheme, which was to commence
in 1936. The help of the whole of the Civil Veterinary Department
staff in these areas is essential to carry out the scheme successfully.
Advantage was taken to instruct the Veterinary Assistant Surgeons
while collected together, in the application of the new Groat Tissue
Vaccine method of inoculation against rinderpest also.
These classes will be continued until all Veterinary Assistant
Surgeons have received this instruction.
If possible, they will be
continued periodically as "refreshers" for district Veterinary Assistant
Surgeons on both contagious disease and live-stock work, etc.
Assistant Director, Western Range.—With the exception of the brief
period of 29 days during which he was on leave on average pay Rai
Sahib Nripendra Nath Majumdar, Assistant Director, was in charge of
the Western Range throughout the year. He spent 41 days on tour
and travelled 80 miles by road and 2,517 miles by rail. In the course
of these tours he visited Darjeeling, Ranaghat, Burdwan, Pabna,
Jalpaiguri, Siliguri and Bogra and inspected the work of the Veterinary
Assistant Surgeons. He also attended the Animal Husbandry Class
held at Berhampore and conducted a case against a Veterinary Inspector
at Krishnagar and further attended the Exhibition at Suri and inspected
the work of the Veterinary Assistant Surgeon at this station.
Assistant Director, Eastern Range.—Babu (now Rai Sahib) M. P.
Ghosh held charge of the office of Assistant Director, Eastern Range,
throughout the year under review. He was on tour for 105 days and
travelled 2,514 miles by rail, 974 miles by steamer, 161 miles by boat
and 148 miles by road.
He visited Mymensingh, Faridpur, Rajbari, Comilla and Feni once
each, Chittagong and Narayanganj twice each during the year. He
visited Sripur thrice in connection with the establishment of a new
veterinary dispensary there. He had to visit Noakhali six times during
the year, once in connection with the glanders outbreak among hack
ponies in the town and subsequently in connection with the widespread
outbreaks of rinderpest which made a serious havoc amongst the cattle
of the district.
He visited the seats of rinderpest outbreak at Hazipara, Jamirtala,
Shahapur, Banchanagar, Bhabaniganj, Balam Char, Char Ramani
Mohan, Kutirhat, Yakubpur and Mongalkandi of Noakhali district,
supervising and conducting Goat Tissue Vaccination as well as the
production of local Field Virus, in connection with the control and
prevention of the spread of the outbreaks.
For the training of the Veterinary Assistant Surgeons of Dacca,
Mymensingh and Faridpur districts by the Live-Stock Expert, Bengal,
on Animal Husbandry and cattle improvement, etc., he went to Manipur
Farm for three days in May 1935 and visited this Dairy and Cattle-
breeding section, four times during the year. He visited Joydebpur
six times—once for general inspection of the Veterinary work and.