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physiology under one roof. Considerable additions have been made to the dog
ward to allow of proper accommodation being provided for the admission of
serious cases. In the contagious ward, six new segregation stalls have been
provided and a large airy post-mortem house capable of being used for teaching
purposes, is being erected.
18. In Bengal, of the buildings mentioned last year, the operation shed only
has been completed but work at the various improvements sanctioned has re-
cently been commenced.
19. It is most satisfactory to note the complete transformation which has
been effected at the Bombay Veterinary College. The new buildings mentioned
as having been sanctioned last year are being built and the students' quarters
are nearly completed. Considerable additions have been made to the equip-
ment. The museum has been commenced, all available material having been
properly displayed and already very considerable additions have been made to
them. The patho-bacteriological laboratory is being thoroughly well equipped
and is now in working order and being made use of for diagnostic purposes.
An operation theatre is to be erected. The pharmacy is being enlarged. The
requirements still remaining, urgently required to place the institution on a
proper footing, are an Infectious disease ward, Dissecting room and post-mor-
tem room as well as a new Bacteriological Laboratory.
20. The establishment of small local research laboratories is a matter to
which our attention has been directed. The Punjab and the Bengal Colleges
now possess them and such work as is possible is carried out by officers in their
spare time. Until, however, whole-time pathologists can be employed in them,
we cannot hope for any very great progress to be made in research work. The
number of officers available for work in Colleges is far too small, the Punjab be-
ing the only one which has a whole-time teaching staff. Bombay comes next, but
the extra work demanded of the small staff is far too great and I consider that
the Principal should be made a whole time teacher and be relieved of the work
in connection with the Glanders and Farcy Department and the Harbour In-
spection work. The staff has been slightly strengthened in Bengal but there
seems to be no whole-time officer working in the College and the same is true
of Madras, where only one officer is available for the whole of the work of the
Province.
21. It will be seen that considerable progress has been made in developing
the resources of our Veterinary Colleges and placing them on a proper footing
in regard to buildings and equipment.
II.-TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
Contagious dis-
ease amongst
solipeas.
Outbreaks, mor-
tality, etc.
22. Table II shows the reported mortality from the contagious diseases
amongst animals named therein. The Army Remount Department, as usual,
deals with all cases of contagious disease amongst equines occurring in the
districts selected for horse-breeding under their Department and we have no
record of them.
23. The same remarks as were made last year in regard to their accuracy
apply this year. The figures, as a rule, relate only to cases which have been
brought to the notice of the staff and do not in any way represent the total
mortality from contagious diseases in our districts.
24. Glanders.—The reports show a very considerable increase in the num-
ber of horses attacked by Glanders, from which disease 960 horses are said to
have died or been destroyed. Of these, 875 are reported from Bengal against
530 last year. Some progress was made in the arrangements for the working
of the Glanders and Farcy Act in Calcutta where 33 horses were destroyed
under the Act. Revised rules for dealing with Glanders, Surra and Epizootic
Lymphangitis were approved and notified in the Punjab and a revised list of
officers in the Province having powers of veterinary practitioners was also noti-
fied. Twelve cases of Glanders were dealt with under the Act in the Punjab ;
5 of them in districts under the Army Remount Department and 7 in our own
districts. The Act was well and very carefully applied in Bombay, where 41
cases were dealt with in Bombay Town and 8 in the remaining districts of the