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33. No bacteriological or microscopical work worth mentioning has been
done in the past and no facilities existed for such work, but the so-called
Patho-Bacteriological Laboratory is now in working order and as an aid to
diagnosis and in the confirmation of diagnosis has already been exceedingly
useful. A Veterinary College without such a Laboratory is an impossibility at
the present day. When the Subordinate Civil Veterinary Department reaches
its full complement much valuable material should be obtainable from the seats
of outbreaks of disease in the district and we shall be able to determine with
some accuracy what diseases really do exist and their relative importance; we
shall also be in a position to demonstrate to the students in a practical and
impressive manner the actual causes of disease and the measures it is necessary
to adopt for their eradication and prevention.
FORGE AND SHOEING SHED.
34. Teakwood Venetians and half doors to replace makeshift chuppras
and canvas blinds have been fixed to the Forge and Shoeing Shed and it has
been proposed to extend the shed during the next year by throwing out a
verandah on its western side, the Shoeing Shed not being large enough to
accommodate horses sent to be shod or to protect them and the Shoeing Smiths
against the sun and rain.
THE PHARMACY.
35. The Pharmacy is much too small for the teaching of practical phar-
macy and compounding, and its enlargement has therefore been proposed. This
can be effected at little cost by the removal of the partition dividing it from
the present Library, which will be removed to the new Government College,
and thus throwing the two rooms into one.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE WARD, DISSECTION AND POST-MORTEM ROOMS.
36. It is intended to propose to Government that a small infectious
disease ward be built on the new College premises for the actual demonstration
of certain diseases. The erection of dissection and post-mortem rooms will also
be proposed, but the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have
made some objection on sanitary grounds. This objection will, however, I
think, be withdrawn when the matter has been further discussed and it is
understood what our actual requirements are. Dissection and post-mortem
rooms are very much wanted. At present the students have to be taken up to
the Lazaretto at Sewree, where there is merely a dark post-mortem room in which
dissections have to be carried out as best they can. The room is altogether too
small and dark for a dissection class and is moreover required as a post-mortem
room in connection with the Glanders and Farcy Department. It need hardly
be said that dissections have hitherto been carried out in a most perfunctory
manner and that Anatomy is learnt by the students mainly from books and
charts.
NEW BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
37. Plans and estimates for a new Bacteriological Laboratory to be
erected in the compound of the new Government Veterinary College are being
prepared under the advice of the Inspector General, Civil Veterinary Depart-
ment.
The Inspector General in his letter No. 457-c., dated the 29th November
1906, writes to the Director of Public Instruction that it is now considered
desirable that each Veterinary College should have a properly equipped Labora-
tory attached to it and that it be placed in charge of a skilled Pathologist. If
this be sanctioned, it will be comparatively a small building, and the present
"Patho-Bacteriological Laboratory" will be converted into a Histo-Patho-
Bacteriological Class room and dark room for magic lantern exhibitions, photo-
micrography, &c., in connection with the new Bacteriological Laboratory, and
research and bacteriological investigation work will be confined to the latter
building and will be in charge of the proposed skilled Pathologist. This addi-
tion to the College staff is much needed. There has been a great amount of