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PART B.—IMPERIAL ADMINISTRATION.
BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
196. Captain J. D. E. Holmes, M.A., D.Sc., held charge of the Labora-
tory up to the 16th February 1910 and since his departure on combined leave
Major F. S. H. Baldrey, F.R.C.V.S., D.V.H., officiated in the appointment of
the Imperial Bacteriologist.
197. Mr. Cross held the office of the Assistant Bacteriologist and
Dr. Hartley that of the Physiological Chemist throughout the year.
198. Mr. J. G. Cattell after completing his training at this Laboratory
was posted in the month of October 1909 for training in district work under
the Chief Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Punjab.
199. The three European Laboratory Assistants remained in their res-
pective posts.
Preparation of Sera.
200. Rinderpest anti-serum.—Four hundred and nine thousand and
seventy-eight (409,078) doses of anti-rinderpest serum issued have been pre-
pared as against 545,974 doses, or 136,896 doses less than in the previous
year.
201. The serum issued amounted to 446,981 doses as against 627,349
doses during the previous year.
202. The shortage in preparation of the serum was solely due to insuffi-
cient supply of hill bulls.
203. The demand far exceeded the supply and very great inconvenience
resulted from the suspension of the issue for about three months so as to
allow of a small reserve being collected. The supply to Foreign countries had
to be discontinued entirely and that to Native States limited. The demand
is still greater than can be met and the provision of another serum Laboratory
is a pressing necessity; search is being made for a suitable site and it is hoped
that we may find one in the near future.
204. The popularity of the method is daily increasing in all Provinces,
except Bombay where nothing is being done. No doubt the good results
which follow its use rapidly overcome the prejudices of the people who ask
for it when rinderpest breaks out.
205. The results of the anti-serum injections carried out in the field and
collated from the respective returns received in this office are as follows :—
PROVINCE.
Punjab
.
.
.
North-West Frontier
Province and North
Punjab . . .
Bengal .
.
.
.
Bengal Veterinary Col-
lege .
.
.
.
Eastern
Bengal and
Assam
. . .
United Provinces of Agra
and Oudh . . .
Central Provinces . .
Madras
.
. .
Bombay . . .
Mysore State . . .
Nagod State . . .
Burma . . .
Sind, Baluchistan and
Rajputana . . .
Hissar Cattle Farm .
Number of
outbreaks
in which
inoculation
was under-
taken.
284
40
85
53
...
570
196
593
...
64
4
34
5
2
NUMBER OF ANIMALS
WHICH DIED UNINOCU-
LATED IN COURSE OF
OUTBREAK.
Equines.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Bovines.
5,672
998
872
74
...
5,629
1,887
12,724
...
1,178
80
642
718
18
Others.
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
1,025
...
73
...
...
...
NUMBER OF ANIMALS
INOCULATED.
Equines.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Bovines.
43,277
15,068
12,549
2,443
...
43,212
21,916
46,952
...
10,497
652
3,466
387
376
Others.
...
...
37
...
...
...
...
1,149
...
...
84
...
7
34
NUMBER OF ANI-
MALS WHICH
DIED AFTER
INOCULATION.
Equines.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Bovines.
94
8
93
30
...
91
49
38
...
1
...
81
2
4
Others.
...
...
5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
...
...
...
REMARKS.
206. The work of the Laboratory was carried on under very great diffi-
culties. In the early part of the year rinderpest and foot and mouth disease
among animals and cholera among the villagers prevailed throughout the