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no fewer than 3,955 villages as compared with 2,760 in the preceding year.
They treated 24,478 cases of contagious and 14,312 cases of non-contagious
disease, the corresponding figures for the previous year being 7,691 and 13,140.
The Governor in Council views with the greatest satisfaction the efforts made
by the officers of the Department to popularize their profession in the villages
surrounding their head-quarters, and is pleased highly to commend the energetic
touring of which the figures quoted above are ample proof. Even better results
may be expected as the Department expands; and as one Inspector and forty-three
Veterinary Assistants are to be added to the establishment during the course of
the next five years, each succeeding year should witness an expansion of the
beneficent activities of the Department. In view of the rise of pay granted to
the lower grades of the cadre, it is to be hoped that no difficulty will be
experienced in carrying out the sanctioned increase of staff. The development
and the present satisfactory state of the Department is largely due to the efforts
of Lieut.-Colonel H. M. Maxwell, who has recently retired after three years'
careful superintendence, and the Governor in Council is pleased to acknowledge
the high value of his services throughout that period.
3. In Sind the year was favourable, and there was a large decrease in the
number of deaths caused by contagious diseases. The number of dispensaries
rose from 8 to 11 and the number of cases treated, both on tour and otherwise,
showed a satisfactory advance. Government endorse the opinion formulated by
the Commissioner in Sind as to the importance of touring by road, for it is only
by this expedient that the Department can win the confidence of cultivators in
outlying parts. The large number of inoculations against hæmorrhagic septi-
cæmia and the success attending the measure, provide an interesting and welcome
feature of the year's working.
4. The administration of the Glanders and Farcy Department continued to
be satisfactory.
C. W. A. TURNER,
Under Secretary to Government.
To
The Commissioner in Sind and the Commissioners of Divisions,
All Collectors, including the Collectors in Sind and the
Deputy Commissioner, Upper Sind Frontier,
The Director of Agriculture,
The Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Bombay
Presidency,
The Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Sind,
Baluchistán and Rajputána,
The Principal, Bombay Veterinary College,
The Principal, Agricultural College, Poona,
The Sanitary Commissioner for the Government of Bombay,
The Municipal Commissioner for the City of Bombay,
The Accountant General,
The General Officer Commanding 4th (Quetta) Division,
The General Officer Commanding 5th (Mhow) Division,
The General Officer Commanding 6th (Poona) Division,
The Political Resident, Aden,
The Agent to the Governor, Káthiáwar,
The Resident, Kolhápur, and Political Agent, Southern
Marátha Country States,
All Political Agents,
The Compiler, General Administration Report for 1913-14,
The Political, Judicial, General, Public Works and Financial
Departments of the Secretariat,
The Editors' Tables and Editors of Newspapers,
All Registered Libraries,
The Non-official Members of the Legislative Council,
With copies of
the Report.