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ANNUAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE CIVIL VETERI-
NARY DEPARTMENT, SIND, FOR THE YEAR 1918-19.
Mr. J. G. Cattell held charge of the office of Superintendent, Civil
Veterinary Department, Sind, Baluchistan and Rajputana, from the 24th June
1918 to the end of the year. He was attached to the Army Remount Depart-
ment, Baluchistan Circle, from the 1st April to the 5th May 1918 while holding
a temporary commission in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers. From the
6th to the 19th May 1918 he was on war leave and from the 20th May to the
23rd June 1918 he was on privilege leave on account of illness. Khan
Bahadur S. G. Haji, Deputy Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department,
Sind, acted as Superintendent in addition to his own duties from the 1st April
1918 until the 23rd June 1918. Mr. Cattell was on tour in Sind for 131 days
and travelled 4,610 miles by rail and 454 miles by road. He attended a
sectional meeting of Veterinary Officers at Lahore in March 1919. He
inspected the veterinary dispensaries at Karachi, Hyderabad, Hala, Mirpurkhas,
Jacobabad, Tatta, Sujawal, Nawabshah and Naushahro Feroz. He acted
as Veterinary Officer of the Army Remount Department, Baluchistan Circle,
until the 4th December 1918 in addition to his own duties. He purchased
about 1,100 camels in Sind for the Army. He paid frequent visits to stallion
stands and inspected collections of mares. He assisted on the Judging
Committees of the horse show held at Jacobabad and the pony and cattle
shows held at Ghotki and Mirpurkhas. He visited the Government Agricul-
tural Farms at Mirpurkhas and Landhi. He inspected sites for the proposed
veterinary dispensaries at Sukkur and Jacobabad. When possible he attended
outbreaks of epidemic disease and checked inoculation work carried out by
Veterinary Assistants.
2. Khan Bahadur S. G. Haji held the post of Deputy Superintendent,
Civil Veterinary Department, Sind, throughout the year. He was on tour for
137 days. He travelled 9,153 miles by rail and 521 miles by road. He
inspected all the veterinary dispensaries in the province. He checked inocula-
tion work and attended outbreaks of disease. He acted as a member of the
Judging Committees of the cattle shows held at Ghotki, Mirpurkhas and
Larkana. He attended plough and dairy cattle collected at Karachi for export
to Mesopotamia and he and the Veterinary Assistant, Karachi, inoculated
4,649 animals with anti-rinderpest serum before shipment. Mr. Haji should
have toured more extensively.
I.—VETERINARY INSTRUCTION.
3. There were five stipendiary students at the Bombay Veterinary
College at the beginning of the year. Two men passed the final examination
in December and were appointed to the department. One student was allowed
to discontinue his studies in September owing to ill-health. Four more scholars
were sent to the Bombay Veterinary College from Sind during the year.
II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
Table II.
4. During the year outbreaks of contagious disease were reported from
all the districts in the province. The number of
deaths reported was 4,125 against 5,686 deaths
reported in the previous year. The mortality statistics are still very
incomplete and unreliable.
Equine contagious disease.
5. Dourine.—One mare was detected showing suspicious symptoms of
dourine and she was detained at a veterinary dispensary until it was reported
that she did not react to the complement fixation test.
6. Glanders.—Six cases of glanders were detected in Karachi and were
destroyed under the Glanders and Farcy Act as against 4 in the previous
year.
7. Surra.—Forty-four cases of surra among equines were reported from
the Karachi, Hyderabad, Thar and Parkar, Larkana and Upper Sind Frontier
districts and all died as against 258 deaths last year.
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