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remainder small animals. The decrease may be attributed to continued famine
and prevalence of plague. The Veterinary Graduate paid 82 visits to owners'
houses in Nadiád and 37 to owners in neighbouring villages, 10 to the Govern-
ment Sire at Kaira and 6 to the charity bullocks under charge of the Mámlat¬
dárs of A'nand and Mehmadabad. He also attended a course of instruction in
rinderpest inoculations at Muktesar, leaving the dispensary in charge of the
Itinerating Veterinary Graduate V. D. Patel. He afterwards proceeded to the
village of Chaklási to investigate an outbreak of rinderpest, inoculating with
success 12 animals, thus making a beginning in this line of treatment. Two
cases of suspected poisoning, sent for opinion by the Police, were proved by
chemical analysis to have been poisoned by arsenic. The report is satisfactory.
Kaira Itinerant.
39. Veterinary Graduate V. D. Patel.—The total number of cases treated
during the year was 726 as against 801 last year.
The decrease was due to the Veterinary Graduate
doing itinerating work 8¾ months only, whereas last year he worked for 10¾
months. The monthly average is thus 81.8 as against 70.3 last year; of the
above total number treated 63 were horses, 344 bullocks, 11 cows, 217 buffaloes,
58 calves and the remainder small animals. The Veterinary Graduate held
charge of the Nadiád Veterinary Dispensary for 1¾ month while P. D. Maniar,
the permanent incumbent, was at Muktesar and on leave, and he attended a
course of rinderpest inoculations at Muktesar for 1½ month. During these
periods his own dispensary work was suspended. He also performed the duties
in connection with horse-breeding, paid 60 visits to the houses of private owners,
and twice visited the charity bullocks located in the Thásra Táluka. The report
is satisfactory.
Surat.
40. Veterinary Graduate M. F. Vakharia.—Inspected
on the 8th Feb-
ruary 1902 and found to be in good order. The total
number of animals treated during the year was 1,163
as against 1,291 last year; of these 413 were horses, 520 cattle, 28 buffaloes
and the remainder small animals. The decrease in the number treated during
the year is accounted for by the introduction of a charge to defray the cost of
medicines given to animals belonging to well-to-do people. An epizootic out-
break is reported as having occurred in the Párdi Táluka, where 21 cattle died
of rinderpest, and foot and mouth disease in a mild form occurred in Surat.
The Veterinary Graduate attended a course of instruction in rinderpest inocula-
tions at Muktesar for a month. He made 29 calls at the houses of well-to-do
owners and visited the Government agricultural and dairy farms six times.
He also visited periodically the mounted Police stables and occasionally the
Pinjarapol, and the Saturday Fairs held locally. The report is a satisfactory
one.
Summary.
41. There were fifteen dispensaries open at the end of the year, 11
stationary and four itinerant. The report from the
Itinerating Veterinary Graduate, Násik, was received
too late to be incorporated in this report. The remaining fourteen Graduates
have treated 21,486 animals as against 20,497 last year. Out of this number
17,613 or 81.98 per cent. were cured, 1,229 or 5.72 per cent. were relieved,
392 or 1.82 per cent. died, 1,998 or 9.30 per cent. were returned as not known
and incurable, and the remainder 254 or 1.18 per cent. were under treatment at
the end of the year. The percentage of cured and relieved together has fallen
slightly, but the mortality has also fallen. The number of castrations performed
by all the Veterinary Graduates is 26 as against 29 last year.
VI.—TOURS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.
42. During the year under report, 1,159 miles were travelled by road and
8,470 by rail, as against 843 and 10,671, respectively, last year. Detailed tours
were made in the Deccan and Gujarát for the purpose of visiting stallion stands,
branding mares, and gaining a general knowledge of horse and cattle-breeding
and the management and diseases of animals of those parts. The continuance
of famine has so seriously affected horse-breeding that it will be necessary to
remove several horse stallions from outlying stands furthest from breeding
centres, where coverings are very few, as the number of stallions is reduced by