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APPENDIX.
REPORT OF THE VETERINARY ADMINISTRATION OP THE MANIPUR STATE FOR
THE YEAR 1923-24.
1. Personnel.—Babu Krisna Narain was in charge for 9 months. During his absence on leave for
three months the Compounder Rajdhan Singh held charge.
2. Tours.—The Veterinary Assistant was on tour for 82 days travelling 813 mile9. The com-
pounder was on tour for 29 days and travelled 767 miles. They respectively visited 154 and 126
villages as-against 334 villages visited by the Veterinary Assistant in the previous year.
3. Contagious diseases.—Table II shows the number of deaths of animals from contagious diseases
during the year.
Equines.—(a) Anthrax broke out at different times in different place3 causing 6 deaths as against
10 in the previous year.
(b) Surra was reported from 12 places as against 6 in the previous year. It was very bad at
Kakching, Khulen where 34 deaths took place. The total number of ponies attacked Was 82 as against
37 in the previous year. Most of them were destroyed, the rest dying in the natural course of the
disease.
(c) Three deaths from Strangles were reported from Wangjing. Prompt precautionary measures
stopped the spread of the disease,
Bovines.— (a) Foot-and-mouth disease was reported from nine places as against 106 in the previous
year. All the places were timely visited by the Veterinary Assistant. The 30 deaths recorded were
among old animals and calves.
(5) Eighteen deaths, all among calves—from black quarter were reported from two villages (near
Mao) as against 23 from four villages in the previous year.
(c) One death from Anthrax as against two in the previous year was reported from Imphal.
Prompt inoculation in the infected area prevented the spread of the disease.
(d) Two deaths shown under the heading " Other contagious diseases " were recorded by the
Veterinary Assistant when accurate diagnosis was not possible.
Other animals.—During the year under report 13 deaths from Rabies among dogs and jackals as
against 11 in the previous year were reported.
4. Preventive inoculation.—Table III shows the result of serum inoculation. It was undertaken
in 5 outbreaks of Anthrax and 60 animals were inoculated. No animal died after inoculation.
During the year 7,500 c. c. of Anthrax serum were procured and 5,000 c. c. used. The stock held
at the end of the year was 7,250 c. c. The year was again free from Rinderpest ; so the 3,000 c. c. of
Anti-Rinderpest serum held in stock from the previous year were not used.
5. In-patients.—Nineteen
in-patients were treated as against 22 in the previous year.
6. Out-patients.—The number of out-patients was 1,718 as against 3,683 in the previous year.
The large fall is due to the comparative absence of infectious disease among cattle during the year
under report.
7. Operations.—Eighty major and 203 minor operations were performed during the year as
against 44 major and 219 minor in the previous year.
8. The reporting of cattle diseases by choukidars during the year was not satisfatory.
9. Babu Krisna Narain, Veterinary Assistant, worked satisfactorily during the year. He reports
that Compounder Pajdhan Singh gave satisfaction.
AMBIKA CH. GHOSE,
Superintendent, State office,
for President, Manipur State Durbar.