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PART IV.—SUBORDINATE ESTABLISHMENT.
43. Table VII shows the strength of the Subordinate Veterinary Staff of this
province as it stood on the 31st March 1927. There were 3 Veterinary Inspectors
daring the year. The number of Veterinary Assistants at the close of the year was
54 including one on deputation to the Iraq Government and three new graduates
who joined the Department during the year.
44. A brief account of the work performed by the Veterinary Inspectors is given
below:—
(1) Babu Satya Charan Mukherjee, Veterinary Inspector, Dibrugarh Circle,
held charge of the circle for two months and one day only, prior to his long leave
from 2nd June 1927. During this period he travelled by rail 60 miles and by road 4
miles. He visited Tinsukia and Dibrugarh dispensaries once each. I held charge of
the Dibrugarh Circle from the 2nd June 1926 to 31st March 1927 except for 26 days
in November 1926 when I was on leave on medical ground during which period no
substitute was appointed. During the period I was in charge of the Dibrugarh Circle
I was on tour for 150 days (with a monthly average of 16.1 days) and travelled 2,062
miles by rail, 760 miles by steamer, and 1,272 miles by boat and road. I inspected
all the dispensaries in the Dibrugarh Circle thrice except Kohima which was
inspected once. I visited 87 places in connection with outbreaks of cattle diseases
and enquiries into the result of inoculation and also investigation of diseases.
I examined 47 specimens of various materials, such as, blood, dung, scrapings and
urine for diagnosis of diseases.
(2) Babu Srish Chandra Ghosh, Veterinary Inspector, held charge of the Silchar
Circle throughout the year. He was on tour for 61 days (making an average of 5.0
days tour per month) and ho travelled 1,332 miles by rail, 165 miles by steamer and
989 miles by boat and road. He inspected the following hospitals and dispen-
saries :—
Hospital at Silchar, dispensaries at Silchar and Karimganj four times each,
Palonghat, Hailakandi, Kulaura and Habiganj thrice each, Maulvi Bazar, Sylhet
I and II, and Patharkandi twice each and Sunamganj and Jagannathpur once each.
He also inspected the work of the Staff and Reserve Veterinary Assistants at Silchar.
He attended the Industrial and Agricultural Exhibitions held at Habiganj and Silchar
where Veterinary stalls were opened and matters concerning the welfare of live-
stock were explained to the visitors. He also attended the Cattle Show held at
Hailakandi and acted as one of the judges in that Show. He examined 142 speci-
mens microscopically during the year under report. He attended one epidemic of
Surra in South Sylhet subdivision which assumed a serious turn and took measures
under the Glanders and Farcy Act. He visited 36 villages.
(3) During the year under report I held charge of the Gauhati Circle for 22 days
only in the month of May 1926 when no touring was done but I worked in the Labo-
ratory and checked the Gauhati hospital work and trained the new graduates for
field work. I was on leave from the 1st April 1926 to 1st May 1926. Babu Hem
Chandra Sen, Staff Veterinary Assistant, Gauhati, officiated as Veterinary Inspector,
Gauhati Circle, from the 1st April 1926 to 1st May 1926 and from 2nd June 1926 to
the end of the year. During these periods he was on tour for 143 days (with a
monthly average of 13 days) and visited and re-visited 108 villages and travelled
1,680 miles by rail, 658 miles by steamer and 1,433 miles by road and boat. He in-
spected the following hospitals and dispensaries:—
The dispensaries at Gauhati and Bilashipara thrice each, the hospital at Gauhati and
dispensaries at Nalbari, Patacharkuchi, Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri, Tezpur, Mangaldai,
Tangla and Misa twice each and at Shillong, Abhoyapuri, Nowgong and Dhubri once
each. He carried out certain experimental treatment and attended some outbreaks
of cattle diseases. He inspected the breeding bull of the Agricultural Department
at Sorbhog twice. He was deputed to the Upper Shillong Farm to help Mr. H.
Cooper, Imperial Pathologist, in connection with the serum simultaneous inoculation.
He also carried out Tuberculin test in a cow at Shillong.
45. The number of Reserve Veterinary Assistants was 11. Two were employed
in charge of the Government Veterinary Hospitals at Gauhati and Silchar, one was
on deputation to the Iraq Government and the rest were employed on leave vacancies
and on deputation to supplement the local staff during outbreaks of cattle diseases.