REVENUE
DEPARTMENT.
AGRICULTURE.
CALCUTTA, THE 16TH JULY 1901.
RESOLUTION—No. 2717.
READ—
The Annual Report of the Bengal Veterinary College and of the Civil Veterinary
Department, Bengal, for the year 1900-1901.
Read also—
Letter No. 94T.A., dated 21st June 1901, from the Director of the Department of
Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal, submitting the above report with his
remarks.
The Annual Report of the Bengal Veterinary College and of the Civil
Veterinary Department, Bengal, was received with commendable punctuality
on the 24th June, six days before it was due. The report has this year been
written in accordance with the special orders of the Government of India
conveyed in their circular No. 5—56-1, dated 19th March 1901. The attention
of the Director of Land Records is called to paragraph 15, clauses III and
IV, of the Resolution No. 987-1013, dated 24th February 1901, of the Govern-
ment of India which laid down certain general lines to be followed with
reference to the preparation of future reports, with special reference to the
Appendices D and J of the present report.
2. The Veterinary College.—The results of the examinations were creditable
to the students and their instructors in all three classes, more especially in the
Diploma examination, in which all the candidates were successful. Of the new
students who joined the College, it is not stated how many were Muhammadans,
but it appears that only one Muhammadan appeared in the first-year examina-
tion. The Principal should see that a suitable text-book is procured for
instruction in therapeutics. Arrangements have since been made to do away
with the services of the outside lecturers.
All the students, with the exception of one who failed last year, in each
class, held stipends, 14 being provided by Government and 25 by District
Boards or private individuals.
3. The Infirmary.—The number of patients treated in the infirmary again
showed a marked increase. A large number of rinderpest cases were admitted,
and to this is due the increase in the death-rate. Under the Act for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the hospital has been declared to be an
infirmary, and has been much utilised. The transfer of the glanders hospital
from Entally to Belgachia has been sanctioned.
4. Veterinary Assistants.—The demand for Veterinary Assistants still
continues unabated: the new graduates have already got appointments, and
the demand will continue to increase now that the scheme for the gradual
establishment, as funds permit, of veterinary dispensaries throughout the
districts of Bengal has received sanction.
5. Veterinary Dispensaries.—The dispensaries have continued to do good
work, but suffered in some cases from want of funds. Under the new scheme,
these dispensaries will in future be placed on a sounder basis. A better
locality should, if possible, be secured for the Motihari dispensary. That
at Muzaffarpur is said to have suffered from private competition. The
Lieutenant-Governor regrets to hear the account given of the Cuttack
dispensary, and trusts that the Municipality will see their way to contributing
to the cost. The thanks of Government to Rai Kamaleswari Prosad Singh
Bahadur of Monghyr, for his donation to the Dumka dispensary, have been
given. The report on the improvements made to the Chittagong dispensary is
very satisfactory. It is hoped that the local authorities of Purnea will be able to