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EXTRA DUTIES.
9. The following extra duties were performed, viz.:—
(a) The control of the Glanders and Farcy Department in Bombay and
Bándra.
(5) Advising Graduates and other Officers in the Mofussil regarding
disease and treatment of animals and other matters.
(c) Receiving and despatching 5S Donkey Stallions for the North-West
Frontier Province, Punjab, United Provinces and the Army Remount
Department.
(d) Advising the Commissioner of Police regarding the purchase and
casting of Remounts.
(e) Conducting along with the Assistant Principal the examinations in
Veterinary Science at the Examinations in Agriculture of the Bombay
University.
(f) The training of 10 Bullock Drivers belonging to the Supply and
Transport as dressers, by the Native Teaching Staff.
PROPOSED CONTAGIOUS DISEASE WARD, DISSECTION AND
POST-MORTEM ROOMS.
10. For purpose of instruction a proposal was made by the Principal that
a contagious disease ward and dissection and post-mortem rooms should be
erected in the new compound of the Government Veterinary College.
This, at the suggestion of the Director of Agriculture, was forwarded to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Municipal Health Officer
and the Inspector-General, Civil Veterinary Department, asking whether there
would be any objection to the proposals being carried out. The Municipal
Health Officer and the Inspector-General approved of them, but they have been
under the consideration of the Society for the past year (excluding the time I
was away on special leave for three months) without as yet any definite result.
SANITARY SURVEYORS' CLASS.
11. Five Graduates were admitted to the Sanitary Surveyors' Class in
January 1908. No Graduates passed the examination for the class held by the
Bombay Municipality in July 1907.
HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
12. The following alterations and improvements were made in the
Hospital:—
A new cattle operation shed has been built.
The old dog ward has been re-fronted and rendered far more sanitary by
free ventilation.
Government have paid a contribution of Rs: 3,339 towards the cost of a
new Operation Theatre which will be built by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
PATHOS-BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
13. Material such as pathological specimens, blood smears, ears and tails
of animals died of epizootic disease have been received from Graduates of
District and Local bodies for diagnosis. The main feature disclosed by the
examination of these was that septicæmia hæmorrhagica was very often
mistaken for anthrax. Further improvements have been made in the Labora-
tory by the addition of cupboards and roller blinds by the Public Works
Department.
The annual contingent grant was permanently increased by Rs. 500 which
is to be spent in buying Laboratory requisites and a special grant of Rs. 1,000
was sanctioned for this year for the purchase of apparatus from England, some
of which was received before the close of the year.
The question of building a new Bacteriolgical Laboratory on the New
College premises and appointing a skilled Pathologist was referred for discussion
to the Veterinary Conference held at Calcutta in February last and the Director
of Agriculture was requested by Government to report the decision of the
Conference on the subject.