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made by Mr. Steel in paragraph 4 of his report as to the benefits which the
country at large is likely to derive from the employment of trained cattle
doctors in the place of the present unskilled agency, and it is satisfactory to
notice that applications for the services of graduates have been received even
from places outside India, such as Ceylon and Penang.
4. Government are glad to observe that in Mr. Steel's opinion the local
Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries established during the year at Ahmedabad,
Dhulia, Násik and Nadiád have been working satisfactorily. The number of such
institutions in the Presidency will be increased to 12 when the scheme for the
new Civil Veterinary Department has been brought into force. His Excellency
the Governor in Council also notices with pleasure that His Highness the
Gáekwár of Baroda has started two similar hospitals in charge of veterinary
graduates in his own dominions, and His Excellency trusts that other Princes
will follow the same enlightened policy. The Political officers attached to
Native States should be requested to bring to the notice of the Princes and
Chiefs concerned the suggestions on this subject made by Mr. Steel in para-
graph 6 of his report.
5. The quarters built for the Farrier and Instructor in Practical Shoeing
had to be abandoned for residential purposes owing to their insanitary condi-
tion, and they have been utilized under the orders of Government as a Pharma-
ceutical Laboratory. Government regret to notice that the quarters for resident
students recently built at a cost of nearly Rs. 1,000 have been found so un-
healthy as to be useless for residential purposes during part of the year and
that members of the College and Hospital staff have also suffered severely
owing to the general unhealthiness of the locality. The Principal should, in
communication with the Secretary to the Hospital, take all possible remedial
measures to improve this state of things.
6. The Governor in Council is pleased to observe that attention is being
paid to the physical training of the students, and trusts that the Hospital autho-
rities will be able to spare a plot of land out of the compound for a gymnasium
and play-ground.
7. One of the most important buildings connected with the College, of
which the foundation stone was laid during the year by His Excellency Lord
Reay, is the Sir Dinsháh Mánekji Petit Patho-Bacteriological Laboratory. As
remarked in paragraph 4 of Government Resolution No. 6113, dated 20th
August 1889, one of the objects of the Laboratory is to furnish instruction in
the use of the microscope to the students so as to obtain the recognition by the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of the diplomas of the Bombay Veteri-
nary College. His Excellency the Governor in Council, however, regrets to
notice that the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has already
arrived at a decision not to grant such recognition to institutions like the
Bombay College.
8. The Library and the Museum attached to the College received im-
portant additions during the year in the shape of books and specimens.
9. Special investigations were conducted during the year by the Principal
or his Assistant regarding outbreaks of disease among sheep and goats in
Khándesh and sheep and poultry at the Bombay Pinjrápole and in the island of
Sálsette, and the prevalence of a serious disorder called 'Surra' (equine re-
lapsing fever) among horses in the stables of the Bombay Tramway Company.
10. The receipts of the College during the year under review amounted
to Rs. 5,100 and the total expenditure to Rs. 28,692-8-9. The net cost to Gov-
ernment of the maintenance of the College was thus Rs. 23,592-8-9, or nearly
Rs. 481-8-0 per student. The net expenditure during 1888-89 amounted to
Rs. 24,436-6-11 according to the figures given in Appendix H to Mr. Steel's
report. Mr. Steel's remark in paragraph 17 of his report that " the original