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Bovines.
Rinderpest,—This disease has been reported from 2 districts, Karáchi and
Sukkur, and the number of losses are reported at 616 and 29, respectively, vide
Table II against 1,734 reported in Karáchi District last year.
Foot and Mouth,—Six deaths have been reported from this disease in Hyder-
abad District against 2 last year.
Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia.—Tikis disease prevailed in Karachi and Hyder-
abad Districts and 42 animals succumbed to it, vide Table II against 8 last year.
Anthrax.—There were 17 deaths from this disease in the Karáchi District
during the year under report out of 19 affected with the disease against none
last year.
Black Quarter,—One hundred and seventy-one head of cattle are reported to
have died of this disease in the Sukkur District.
Other animals.
Distemper.—Thirty-one deaths in all have been reported from this disease
in Hyderabad and Sukkur Districts against 7 deaths reported last year in
Hyderabad District.
Rabies.—Vide Table II, 21 deaths in all are reported to have occurred
from this disease, 19 in Karachi, 1 in Hyderabad, and 1 in Sukkur District
against 54 reported last year.
Pleuro-Pneumonia Contagiosa.—Ten deaths have been reported to have
occurred from this disease in Sukkur District during the year against 108 report-
ed to have occurred in Karachi District last year.
Bydræmia in sheep.—The Veterinary Graduate, Karachi, reports that he
met with this very ancient disease when on tour in his district and that 141
animals died from it. Like Surra it is probable that it has been known to flock
owners for generations past, in low-lyiug parts of the country like those liable to
inundations from the Indus.
Rinderpest.—One death is said to have been caused by this disease amongst
other animals as against one last year.
6. Preventive inoculation.—As shown in Table III attached, 387 bovines in
all and 7 other animals were inoculated for rinderpest at 5 outbreaks during the
year under report, 314 bovines and 7 others in Karachi District and 73 bovines
in Sukkur District against 1,487 bovines and 17 others in Karachi District inocu-
lated last year. There were 2 outbreaks of Black Quarter in Sukkur District
and 97 animals were inoculated during the year. Of the numbers inoculated
during the year for both the diseases 3 head of cattle died in the Sukkur
District.
(2) Other diseases,
7. As shown in Table II, there was 1 death amongst equines and there
were 5 amongst bovines from other contagious diseases against 2 and 9 deaths
respectively reported last year. Needless to say the reports of the death-rates
of stock from the districts can hardly be relied upon and are more or less use-
less. Besides these, vide Table IV, the Veterinary Assistants while on tour
treated 3,426 cases, 1,000 for contagious and 2,421 for non-contagious diseases
and performed 2 castrations as compared with 2,434, of which 412 were treated
for contagious and 2,021 for non-contagious and 1 castration performed last
year.
The total number of cases treated by Veterinary Assistants as in and out-
door patients at their dispensaries, as shown in Table V, was 11,832 as compared
with 13,230 cases treated last year.
(3) Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries.
8. There were five Hospitals and Dispensaries and one dispensary to which
a hospital was added to during the year, six in all, the same number as in
1908-1909. The Halla Hospital in the Hyderabad District although completed