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Cattle Show at Amritsar; inspected Veterinary Dispensaries at Gurdaspur,
Ludhiana, Jullunder, Umballa, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Surat; inspected the
Cattle Farm at Chharodi and attended the Pushkar Fair. Served as President
of the Board of Examiners at the Bombay, Madras, Bengal and Punjab
Veterinary Colleges. Attended as a Member of the Board of Scientific Advice
at Calcutta. Served as Chairman of the Veterinary Conference held at
Calcutta and visited Bombay to purchase stallions for District Boards.
Attended the Rawalpindi Horse Show; inspected the Veterinary Dispensary
there, and the Bacteriological Depôt at Bareilly.
9. Colonel Morgan travelled 2,241 miles by rail and 58 miles by road.
Colonel Pease travelled 10,484 miles by rail and 74 miles by road.
PART A.—PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION.
1.-VETERINARY INSTRUCTION.
Veterinary
Colleges and
Schools.
10. The main results of the work done in the Veterinary colleges in the
Punjab, Bengal, Bombay and Madras, as well as in the Burma School, are
given in Table I.
11. I have been able to inspect all these colleges during the year and to
act as President of the Board of Examiners, and am glad to be able to report
that, taking all things into consideration, the results of the work done are satis-
factory. The Punjab College has the strongest teaching staff and the great-
est facilities for teaching. Bengal comes next, followed by Bombay and
Madras. Both in Bombay and Madras, which are growing institutions, the
staff is small and the facilities for the practical teaching of contagious diseases
are unsatisfactory; but the question of providing suitable laboratories and segre-
gation wards, where animals suffering from the various contagious maladies
can be kept in isolation, for teaching purposes is under consideration. Without
such conveniences it is difficult to see how the students, who after passing out
of the College are to be entrusted with the important duty of dealing with
epizootics, which will form by far the more important part of their duties, can
be thoroughly trained in this important subject.
12. In regard to staff, the want of officers specially qualified for research
work, such as are considered absolutely necessary by the Advisory Committee
of the Royal Society before any college can be considered to be properly
equipped, is badly felt at most colleges, but we have been unable to supply
them owing to paucity of officers.
13. The inadequacy of the teaching staff has been brought forward by the
Government of Madras where the Principal of the College is also Superinten-
dent of the Provincial Veterinary Department which has in addition to deal with
outbreaks of disease, and cattle and pony breeding over a large province. As
has previously been pointed out, it is quite impossible for an officer, placed
in such a position, to do justice to either of his important charges. We were,
however, unable, notwithstanding the evident urgency of the case, to obtain
sanction for the appointment of an extra officer to the cadre and have been
obliged, in order to spare one from our meagre sanctioned establishment, to
abolish the training post so that it will be impossible to continue the system
of specially training officers in bacteriology in Europe.
14. It is satisfactory to note that the necessity for providing accommodation
and equipment at all the colleges is recognised by the Local Governments and
great progress has been made in providing the buildings, etc., already sanctioned
whilst new projects are under consideration. Punjab has added six stalls and
a postmortem room in the segregation ward and administrative sanction has
been given to the provision of a students' work room and other additions to
the laboratory building. I regret to find, however, that owing to the great
difficulty experienced in acquiring land for the purpose, no progress has been
made with the anatomical rooms already sanctioned. Two hundred students are
being taught anatomy at the college and as the present building is partly dis-
mantled and far too small, the inconvenience experienced is very great. It is
hoped, however, that the rooms may be ready by the beginning of this cold
weather. No progress has been made with the hostel scheme which I am afraid
will have to be dropped on account of the exorbitant prices demanded for land.