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APPENDIX A.
Report on the Veterinary Administration of the Manipur State for the year 1912-13.
1. Personnel.—Babu Krishna Narain, Veterinary Assistant, has continued in charge throughout
the year, under the supervision of the Vice-President, Manipur State Durbar. He was on leave from
8th August 1912 to 18th September 1912. Ho has worked very well. The compounder, Thokcham
Mangaljao Singh, has also done well and is improving under the tuition of the Veterinary Assistant,
2. Tours.—The Veterinary Assistant visited 147 villages during the year. This does not inclulo
frequent visits to villages within the 5 mile radius from headquarters. Ha was on tour for 182 days
travelling 1,281 miles.
3. Contagious diseases.—Table II shows the number of animals known to have died of contagious
diseases during the year under report. The reporting of disease continues to improve slightly, but is
still far from perfect.
Equities.—Only one death occurred from contagious diseases. This was a death from anthrax on
1st April 1912.
Bovines.— (a) Rinderpest broke out at the close of the preceding year and prevailed up to the
beginning of the cold weather. During the first four months of the year the epidemic was particularly
virulent and the number of deaths was very large. Twenty-five thousand three hundred and forty-seven
deaths were actually reported during the year, but it is certain that many more occurrel which were not
reported. The disease is known to have broken out in 316 villages, 198 of which were visited by the
Veterinary Assistant.
(b) Foot-and-mouth disease was only reported from 4 villages as against 76 in the previous year.
Prompt action was taken to prevent the spread of the disease and out of 18 cases reported no deaths
occurred.
No other infectious diseases were reported.
Other animals.—The 24 deaths shown were registered by the Veterinary Assistant while attend-
ing cattle during the rinderpest epidemic. These were caused by rinderpest among sheep and goat-.
The number is undoubtedly far short of what actually happened-
4 Preventive inoculation.—Table III shows the result of serum inoculation.
(a) Anthrax.—Only 5 ponies were inoculated as against 94 in the previous year. These 5 hal all
been inoculated previously.
Two thousand and two hundred c. c. of Scrum was received 1,050 c. c. was in hand. Owing
to the early subpidence of the disease only 350 c. c. was expended and the balance, 2,900 c. c, was
returned to the Imperial Bacteriologist.
(b) "Rinderpest.—Out of 676 cattle inoculated, some of them twice and even thrice, only 9 deaths
occurred. There is still considerable prejudice against inoculation, especially among the more uneducat-
ed agricultural classes. This combined with the high cost of inoculation (the dose for hill cattle being
so much greater than for plains cattle) prevents anything like a general and wide-spr-ad system of
preventive inoculation in case of an outbreak. The majority of cattle inoculated were in Imphal and its
neighborhood.
Last year's balance of serum (4,206 c. c.) was destroyed under the orders of the Imperial Bacte-
riologist.
Out of 35,250 c. c. of fresh serum, received during the year 34,750 c. c. was utilised, leaving
500 c. c. in hand.
5. In and out-patients.—The number of out-patients continues to rise, being 2,607 as against 1,951
in the preceding year. This is satisfactory. The Veterinary Assistant performed 16 major and 9 minor
operations during the year as against 11 major and 18 minor operations in 1911-12.
There is still no accommodation for in-patients, as the Veterinary Dispensary is located in tempo,
ary premises with no out-buildings. The grant of Rs. 1,500 allotted last year for converting His
Highness the Raja's old stables into a dispensary was withdrawn when scarcity in the hills and other
causes necessitated a revision of the State Budget. Rupees 2,000 have, however, been provided for this
purpose in the budget for 1913-14, and it is hoped that the work will soon be taken in hand and that
before the close of the coming year the dispensary will be transferred to its new quarters, which are
commodious and conveniently situated.
J. C. HIGGTNS,
Vice-Ptesident of the Manipur State Durbar,