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already shown in their Resolution No. 2479, dated 6th June 1900, Famine
Department, that this view is based on incorrect information or misapprehension,
cut grass being available for all of them.
Outside the cattle camps and the Thána forests, the mortality among cattle
in Gujarát and the Decean and in the Kohistán hills and the desert of Thar
and Párkar was appalling, but owing to various circumstances it is impossible
to make even an approximate estimate of its extent.
Veterinary Dispensaries.
18. The Ahmedabad District local Board employed an additional
Veterinary graduate for itinerating duties in the
district. The Superintendent states that this graduate
being wholly engaged in supervising one of the cattle camps could not do
any regular dispensary work. Leaving out of account this graduate, the
number of Veterinary Assistants working in the Presidency proper and in Sind
was the same as during the preceding year, including the two Veterinary
officers employed by the District Local Boards of Kolába and Ratnágiri at their
own cost. The following statement shows a slight fall in the number of cases
treated as well as in the percentage of cures as compared with the preceding
year:—
Year.
Presidency proper ...
Sind ... ... ...
Total, 1899-1900 ...
Total, 1898-1899 ...
Number
of
Veteri-
nary
Assist-
ants
employ
ed.
15
4
19
19
Total
cases
treated.
18,782
4,839
23,621
23,933
PERCENTAGE ON TOTAL CASES TREATED.
Cured.
75.84
92.45
79.25
81.61
Relieved.
6.78
3.12
6.03
5.41
Died.
4.86
1.52
4.17
3.02
Incurable.
1.06
.37
.92
.93
Results
unknown.
9.38
.82
7.87
7.51
Under
treatment
at the
close of
the year.
1.78
1.69
1.76
1.52
The work done by the several Veterinary Assistants was generally good.
The Superintendents have specially commended the work done by Messrs. Bhatt,
Maniar, Somney, Háji and Asudamal. Messrs. Bhatt and Maniar also performed
duties in connection with the cattle camps in Gujarát, and Mr. Judah Hyam
was placed on duty with the camps during the latter four months of the year.
The remark made by the Superintendent that the reports submitted by the
Násik and Kaira Itinerating Assistants contain much useless and irrelevant
matter, should be brought to the notice of the District Local Boards concerned,
for communication to those Assistants. The remarks made by the Superintendent,
Civil Veterinary Department, Baluchistán and Sind, regarding the insufficient
accommodation for in-patients and the excessive fees charged for them in the
Hyderabad dispensary, should also be communicated to the Hyderabad District
Local Board for consideration. The Shikárpur dispensary, which had long
suffered from an inconvenient position, has been removed to a suitable locality
nearer the city.
The financial condition of the Khándesh dispensaries is not satisfactory.
Enquiry is being made into the subject.
Miscellaneous.
19. It is satisfactory to note that the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary
Department, Bombay, states that the majority of the
district returns were received by him punctually
puring the year under report.
Conclusion.
20. The work done by both the Superintendents
was satisfactory.
W. P. SYMONDS,
Survey Commissioner and Director,
Lands Records and Agriculture.