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TABLE XXIII.
PROVINCIAL REPORT.
No. 38, dated Meerut, the 25th June 1901.
From—VETY. MAJOR W. R. HAGGER, Assistant to the Inspector-General,
Civil Veterinary Department,
To—The Inspector-General, Civil Veterinary Department, Simla.
I have the honour to submit my report for the official year 1900-1901.
2. In accordance with the instructions contained in your office letter
No. 1692—149 M., dated 4th December 1899, no tour in connection with
cattle survey duty in the Punjab, which was begun by my predecessor, was
undertaken during the year, as it was thought that the demand for rinderpest
preventive inoculation would occupy all the time left at my disposal, after
attending as a Member of the Boards of Examinations at the various veterinary
colleges and schools.
3. It was stated in last year's report that a good many opportunities of
applying inoculation were lost owing to reports of disease, which were forward-
ed through Superintendents of Provinces, not reaching my office in time to
enable me to arrive at the scene of the epidemic before the disease had subsided;
consequently, in June last, when at Simla, I consulted the Director of Land
Records and Agriculture, Punjab, with a view of removing this difficulty, and
that officer addressed a letter to all Deputy Commissioners in the Punjab, in
which it was stated that rinderpest preventive inoculation had been practised in
India with success, and District Officers were requested to furnish me with
early intimation, by telegram, of all outbreaks of the disease occurring in their
respective Circles; but it must be admitted that the number of applications for
the process have been disappointingly small.
4. The places at which inoculation has been practised during the year
were as follows:—
Ahmedabad
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Jubbowal .
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Handowal
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Janori
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Doiwala
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Buhawalla
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Grange Dairy Farm . . . .
Government Bullock Train .
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Kalini
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Dhara
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Khaskdhara
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Malthee .
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Cattle Relief Camp.
Jullunder District.
Hoshiarpur District.
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Dehra Dun District.
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Simla District.
Simla-Kalka Road.
Simla District.
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5. The number of cattle inoculated during the year was 1,489, of which
48S were treated by the simultaneous process of Turner and Kolle, and 1,001
received fortified serum only.
6. Appendix A shows the number of cattle treated by the simultaneous
method and the number attacked before and after inoculation at each place.
Appendix B is a similar statement for those places where the serum
method was practised.
7. From Statement A it will be seen that of the 488 cattle inoculated by
the simultaneous method, 17, or 3 5 per cent. were attacked before the 5th
day after inoculation, and 50, or 10 per cent., were attacked after the 5th day.
While Appendix B shows that out of 1,001 treated with serum, only one
(at Kandeyghat) was attacked after inoculation.
8. As the breed of cattle and the conditions under which they exist are
not the same in all parts of India, I propose to consider each outbreak treated
during the year separately.
9. Ahmedabad, Bombay Presidency.—The first outbreak to which I was
called was at the Relief Cattle Camp at Ahmedabad in March 1900. The
animals were collected indifferent camps in the neighbourhood of Ahmedabad
City under J. Mollison, Esq., Director of Agriculture, Bombay Presidency.
They were generally in poor condition. Rinderpest appeared in the camp, known
as Moneybhai's camp, early in February, and there were some 80 attacks
and 33 deaths, but the disease had nearly died down when I arrived and no
fresh cases occurred afterwards. It was feared, however, that the contagion