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PART IV.—SUBORDINATE ESTABLISHMENT.
36. Table VII shows the strength of the subordinate staff of the Department
employed during the year. At the end of the previous year the total strength was 3
Inspectors and 36 Veterinary Assistants During the year 3 new graduates joined the
department, one Assistant reverted from military duty and one resigned. So that at
the close of the year the total strength was 3 Inspectors and 39 Veterinary Assistants.
37. A brief summary of the work done by Veterinary Inspectors, Staff and Reserve
Veterinary Assistants is given below :—
(1) Babu Satya Charan Mukherjee, Veterinary Inspector, was in charge of the
Dibrugarh Circle. He was on tour for 253 days, travelled 3,211 miles by rail, 2,010
miles by steamer and country boat and 1,231 miles by road. He visited and revisiter
195 villages and tea estates in connection with enquiries and investigation of
inoculation results and outbreak of diseases. He inspected the work of the Veterinary
Assistant, Dibrugarh, six times, Tinsukia 5 times, Sibsagar, Nazira, Marimi, Jorhat,
Golaghat, Tezpur, Mangaldai four times each, Behali three, Badlipar and North
Lakhimpur twice each and Kohima once.
(2) Babu Guru Prasanna Sen was in charge of the Silchar Circle. He was on tour
for 165 days and travelled by rail 1,829 miles, 2,017 miles by road and country boat,
39 miles by steamer and visited 109 villages in connection with outbreaks, etc. He
inspected the work of the Assistants at Silchar 5 times, Haihkandi, Patharkaiuli,
Karimganj, Sreemangal and 1st Assistant's work at Syihet four times each, Maulvi-
Bazar, 2nd Assistant, Sylhet, thrice each and Sunamganj twice.
He examined 27 specimens of blood smew during the year, of which 14 proved
Anthrax, 1 Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia and 1 Surra which were subsequently eonfirrm
ed.
Four suspected ponies seized under the Glanders and Farcy Act were tested by
him with rnallein ; all were released as none of them reacted to the test.
(3) Babu Srish Chandra Ghosh was in charge of the Gauhati Circle. He was
on tour for 110 days travelled 1,531 miles by rail, 852 miles by steamer and 1,198
miles by road. He inspected the work of Nowgong, Gauhati, Nalbari, Barpeta,
Shillong and Dhubri thrice each, Bilashipara twice and Goalpara once. He inspected
the Upper Shillong Farm. At headquarters he assisted in Laboratory work, etc.
(4) Babu Bhudhar Chandra Chatterjee was the Staff Assistant during the year.
He was on privilege leave for 3 months from the 16th March 1918. Babu Hem
Chandra Sen, Veterinary Assistant, Shillong, officiated in his place. He was again on
leave on private affairs from the 7th September to 12th October 1918, and no subst-
itute was available. His duties were the same as in the previous year—receiving,
despatching and keeping accounts of sera, etc., assisting in the laboratory and
attending in and out-patients at Gauhati hospital.
(5) The number of Reserve Veterinary Assistants was 5. They were employed
in leave vacancies in districts and were deputed to the following places to supplement
the work of the local staff :—
Silchar, Karnrup, Dhubri, Nowgong and Sibsagar.
One Reserve Assistant was deputed to the Kuki operations for 6 months
with effect from the 17th October 1918.
The names of the following Assistants are noted for good work :—
Staff Veterinary Assistant Babu Bhudhar Chandra Chatlerjee, Veterinary Assi-
tant Babu Hem Chandra Sen, Shillong, and in a lesser degree Veterinary Assistants
Sreejut Madhab Chandra Das, Barpeta, Babu Monmatha Nath Ghosh, North Lakhim-
pur, Babu Surendra Mohan Sen Gupta, Jorhat, and Maulvi Azizuddin Sircar, Tezpur.
PART V.—EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
38. Table XIV(a) shows the total expenditure of the Department as furnished by
the Comptroller, Assam, to be Rs. 78,567-3-2 excluding the charges of the Maulvi
Bazar Local Board whose records were destroyed by fire. The expenditure of the
Department in the previous year was Rs. 85,252-2-3.
PART VI.—GENERAL REMARKS.
39. During the year the province has been free from any serious or extensive
outbreaks of cattle-disease. The ordinary routine work has suffered on account of fever
and influenza amongst the Assistants. I regret that few names of Assistants can be