2
Information relating to
students.
4. Appendix D gives the number of students of each nationality on the
College rolls during the year under report. In the
new admissions all the nationalities have been fairly
represented, there being 3 Europeans, 4 Pársis,
1 Eurasian, 13 Hindus, 1 Jew, and 4 Mahomedans.
Appendix E shows the number of students attending supported by Local
Fund Boards and Native States. There is an increase of one over that of the
last year. Of these 11 men, 8 are Hindus, 1 a Mahomedan, 1 a Budhist and
1 a Jew.
Employment of Graduates.
5. The demand for the services of Graduates was much the same as last
year. All the men who obtained the diploma in
April 1893 got employment. One, on a salary of
Rs. 100 at the Remount Depôt at Ahmednagar; one, on a salary of Rs. 105,
including allowances, under the Bombay Municipality, as Superintendent of
the Zoological Collection at the Victoria Gardens; one, on a salary of Rs. 100,
under the District Local Board, Shikárpur; one, as an Itinerating Veterinary
Graduate, on a salary of Rs. 50 rising to Rs. 100, at Bhadgaon in the Khán-
desh District; one, as a Veterinary Graduate in charge of the Veterinary
Dispensary, Jalgaon, on a salary of Rs. 50 rising to Rs. 100; four, under the
Native States of Bhávnagar, Junágad, Mysore, and Gwalior, on a starting
salary of Rs. 50 each, and the remaining two, as Assistant Veterinary Officers at
the College.
6. Applications have been received for men for the appointments of
Itinerating Veterinary Graduates in the Shikárpur, Hyderabad, and Násik
districts, and also for Veterinary Graduates for dispensaries at Dhárwár,
Surat, and Sholápur, and there are still vacancies for two Graduates as
Lecturers at the Calcutta Veterinary Institute, and the Ajmere Veterinary
School, but, owing to the paucity of men, these appointments could not be filled
up. Applications were also received for the services of Graduates for Zanzibar,
and the Native State of Pratápgad.
Contagious diseases.
7. Mr. D. F. Dubash, G.B.V.C., was appointed Acting Harbour
Veterinary Surgeon, on 20th June 1893, vice Mr.
I. V. Vaz, G.B.V.C., who obtained the appointment
of Veterinary Overseer, Babugarh Stud Farm.
Mr. Ralph St. J. Walley, M.R.C.V.S., was appointed, on the 4th Septem-
ber 1893, an additional Veterinary Surgeon under Section 7 of the Glanders and
Farcy Act, for the City and Island of Bombay including the Port.
Foot and Mouth Disease and Rinderpest were generally prevalent through-
out the year, more especially from November 1893 to March 1894, when a
somewhat serious outbreak of both these diseases was reported in the Karjat
Táluka and in the City and Island of Bombay. Two graduates, Messrs. B. S.
Shroff and A. P. Laskari, the former to Karjat and the latter to Bombay, were
appointed to deal with the cases and to advise owners as to the treatment and
care of their cattle.
I regret there was no means of obtaining reliable figures as regards the
numbers attacked and died, because of the fact that owners in very many cases
afforded the Graduates little or no assistance, and treated the outbreaks more
as a visitation from God than as due, in a great measure, to their own stolid
apathy and carelessness.
Foot and Mouth Disease also made its appearance amongst the cattle of
the Commissariat Department in Bombay. This outbreak I personally investi-
gated, and my orders having been carefully carried out it was speedily arrested.
Glanders and Farcy. — Twenty-eight horses were destroyed under Act XX
of 1879, being a decrease of 9 as compared with the previous year, which is
decidedly satisfactory. Of the 28 cases, 7 came from the Arab stables, Byculla, 4
belonged to private stables, 7 to hack ghárry-wallahs, 8 unknown (abandoned),
and 2 were found on board the ships arriving in the harbour, both from the
Persian Gulf, as against 1 in the previous year.