44
Several cases of equine surra were treated at dispensaries with disappoint-
ing results.
Other contagious disease.—Eight animals are reported to have died from
other contagious diseases during the year under report.
Bovine
epidemic
disease—
Table II.
6. Rinderpest.—The disease broke out in the Karáchi and Hyderabad
Districts; 273 animals were attacked, of which 200 died
against 246 deaths reported last year.
No inoculations were performed against rinderpest as either the disease
was reported too late or the owners refused to have their cattle inoculated.
Foot and Mouth disease occurred in the Karáchi, Lárkána, Hyderabad
and Thar and Párkar districts and the animals attacked numbered 2,002, The
mortality from this disease was 46. Most of the outbreaks were attended by
the veterinary staff. As the deaths from this disease are small people pay
little attention to it and the extent of the prevalence of foot and mouth disease
in a district cannot be approximately estimated.
Haemorrhagic septicaemia appeared in all the districts except the Upper
Sind Frontier District; 1,467 animals were attacked, of which 1,407 died against
a mortality of 341 in the previous year.
Preventive inoculation—Table III.
Preventive inoculation was carried out by the veterinary staff in 22
outbreaks in the Karáchi, Hyderabad and Lárkána
districts. 2,984 animals were inoculated, of which
four died after inoculation. 422 uninoculated contact animals died of the
disease. Last year 856 inoculations were performed. There is considerable
opposition to preventive inoculation and it requires tact to induce owners to
have their cattle inoculated. An encouraging feature during the year was that
several cattle owners, who had had previous experience of inoculation, came
forward voluntarily when disease appeared in their villages during the year
under report and asked that their healthy cattle might be inoculated.
Black quarter caused the death of 186 animals out of 238 animals
attacked by the disease against 46 deaths last year.
Preventive inoculation—Table III.
One hundred animals were vaccinated against
the disease, of which three died.
Other contagious diseases.—One hundred and twenty-six deaths occurred
from other contagious diseases, the most important of which were parasitic
diseases.
Epidemic disease (others)—
Table II.
7. Pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa appeared in other animals and caused
the death of 163 goats against 10 deaths reported
last year.
Anthrax. —Two deaths were reported in other animals from the Karáchi
District against 20 deaths reported last year.
Bubonic plague.—Four cases, which proved fatal, were detected in the
Zoological Gardens, Karáchi, against 3 deaths reported from the gardens last
year.
Rabies.—Fifty cases of rabies were reported by Veterinary Assistants
during the year. Of the 50 cases 47 were reported by the Veterinary Graduate,
Karáchi. The disease appears to be increasing in Karáchi. The Veterinary
Graduate induced 25 persons who were bitten by rabid animals to go to the
Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, for treatment. The Superintendent understands that
several other persons were sent to Kasauli by medical practitioners.
Tuberculosis.—Two deaths were reported from the Karáchi District.
Surra.—Two animals died in the Hyderadad District.
Other contagious diseases.—Two hundred deaths were reported from other
contagious diseases in other animals during the year under report. The chief
causes of mortality were fluke disease and parasitic gastro-enteritis.