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were raised by subscription from the students and sanction of Govern-
ment to the payment of a contribution of an equivalent sum was
obtained.
20. Football, cricket, tennis, hockey, boxing, etc., were indulged in
by the various teams of the College.
21. Gifts to the College.—Four horses were kindly presented to the
College for light duty by our clients in Calcutta, during the year.
Treatment of Diseases.
22. During the year under report, 2,561 patients were treated and
469 operations performed against 2,562 patients and 374 operations,
respectively, of last year.
23. Out of 14,340 prosecutions under the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals Act during the year under consideration in the Bankshall
Street Police Court, 222 animals were sent to the Infirmary for rest
and treatment by the trying Magistrate. The numbers of last year
were 16,323 prosecutions and 424 admissions.
24. The fees for treatment, etc., were Rs. 24,451-12-9 and the cost
of feeding was Rs. 24,391-4-3 against Rs. 26,979-2-9 and Rs. 28,834-12-0
of last year, respectively. The latter figure includes the treatment,
feeding and maintenance, free of charge of the riding ponies ambulance
horses and breeding and draft cattle belonging to the College and of
free treatment to patients of poor people.
25. Ambulances.—The College ambulances were again in demand
by the public of Calcutta; Rs. 410 were realised on account of their
services against Rs. 560 of last year. The proposal for a motor
ambulance is under consideration of Government.
26. Cultivation.—The Manager was in charge of this section.
Lucerne, carrots, guinea-grass, oats, jowar, swedes, etc., were grown
and fed to our patients. They were put down as usual, in rotation, in
the College compound on an area of some 16 acres of land as in the
previous years. The benefit to the sick as a foodstuff and to the
students by way of demonstration is unquestionable; fodder cultivation
on our own land is also a paying proposition both indirectly from the
reduction in local purchases of dry grain and in the sale of surplus
green stuff which this year produced an income of Rs. 2,590-4 as
against Rs. 1,552-2-9 of last year. We hope in time our small efforts
in fodder cultivation and the benefits to all kinds of stock to be obtained
therefrom will extend to the mufassal. Orders for seed and roots are
now numerous as also advice regarding sowing, care and attention, etc.,
of the crops grown here. A little less jute and more fodder cultivation
would benefit the stock of Bengal enormously. The success of this
section is in great part due to the untiring energy of the Manager.
27. Fairs and shows.-Samples of the various kinds of grasses
important specimens or diseases in models and charts were supplied
during the year to different exhibitions in the district and for the
demonstration train for propaganda work.
28. New Dissection Theatre.—An entirely new building was erected
and opened in the College compound last year. It is well equipped
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and of great benefit to the teaching of Anatomy. The Lecturer-in-
charge (Mr. D. K. Sen) was more or less responsible for putting this
new building in order and for the great improvement in the teaching
of this subject by the preparation and collection of wet and dry speci-
mens now exhibited in this Theatre.
Breeding Operations.
29. The return of stud bulls maintained at the College is included
in Table VIII of the Report of the Civil Veterinary Department,
Bengal.
30. The statement is enclosed with my report also for ready
reference.
31 The number of cows served during the year was 285 and the
fees realised for breeding Rs. 566 against 352 and Rs. 642 of last
year.
Provincial and Subordinate Establishment.
32. The total strength of the Provincial and Subordinate Staff
employed at the College is included in Table VII of the Report of the
Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal.
33. This statement is enclosed with my report also for ready
reference.
Expenditure of the College.
34. The main results of receipts and expenditure of the College,
compiled by my office and duly verified by the Accountant-General,
Bengal, are given in Table I of my report.
General Remarks.
35. The reconstituted Committee of Management of this College
held three meetings during the year. They discussed all-important
matters connected with the College. With the exception of the members
named below all other members attended the meetings regularly: —
Mr. Syed Naseer Hossain Khayal.
Maulvi Syed Nasim Ali.
Babu Gobordhan Dass Shroff.
36. Government sanctioned from this year, as an encouragement to
prospective students of Bengal, the award of 10 stipends of the value
of Rs. 12-8 each per mensem.
37. The existing rules of the College and hospital have been
revised and made up to date and submitted to Government for scrutiny
and sanction.
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38. I regret to record the death of Babu Nanda Lall Mitter,
Lecturer, which melancholy event took place on 10th January 1928.
He was a most conscientious and able worker.
39. A scheme for a post-graduate course of a few months' duration
is under preparation and it will be submitted to the Government for
sanction soon.
40. The District Boards of Bengal are, it would seem, gradually
becoming less and less interested in, and sympathetic with, the objects
of this Institution, as the awards of stipends to the deserving bona fide
youths of the province for Veterinary education are slowly decreasing
in number.
Comparative annual figures of the necessary drop in this direction
will be submitted to Government separately, as also comparative figures
of similar awards of District Boards of other provinces, such as Bihar
and Orissa. The Cossipore-Chitpore Municipality used to award in the
past a stipend to a local inhabitant to this College but this also was
discontinued on the amalgamation of such municipalities with the
Calcutta Corporation.
Special Remarks.
41. Vice-Principal.—Has worked well and loyally with me while
holding this post.
42. Professional Staff.—All have, on the whole, done their work
satisfactorily. For special mention among the Lecturers, Mr. D. K.
Sen and his assistant and Mr. S. N. Sinha stand out in the work of
the year.
43. Manager.—Babu B. B. Banerjee deserves again all I can say
of his keen and conscientious attention to the many and varied duties
he performed during the year.
44. Office Staff.—My office work is increased in the last few years
to a very considerable extent, with the result that the general office
workers are kept going at fairly high pressure. Their efforts during
the year were praiseworthy.
Epizootic Diseases of Animals Department in Calcutta.
All stables in the Calcutta Glanders area, extending from Barrack-
pore to Matiaburuz and the town of Howrah, were regularly inspected
by the Inspectors.
2. Altogether 278 horses were seized under the Glanders and Farcy
Act against 98 of the previous year. Of these, 26 were destroyed for
Glanders, 18 died of Glanders—against 14 destroyed and 10 died last
year—and the remaining 234 were discharged as free from any of the
diseases scheduled under the Act. There were outbreaks of Glanders
in the Calcutta and Howrah Municipal Gowkhanas. Prompt action
was taken to stamp out the disease.
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3. During the year under review, Rinderpest broke out in mild
form in Calcutta and its suburbs, prompt action was taken by this
Department to check the disease. During the year, 1,085 cattle were
inoculated against Rinderpest by the Glanders staff against 1,075 of
the last year. The sale proceeds of serum locally in addition to the
inoculation fees amounted to Rs. 1,902-10 as against Rs. 1,137-5-6
realised last year.
4. During the period of closure of the Presidency Remount Depot,
9 horses and 3 zebras were inspected by the Glanders Inspectors on
boardship prior to their landing at the port of Calcutta. No clinical
symptoms of any of the scheduled diseases were found.
Raymond Research Laboratory,
The Laboratory continued to do good and useful work as the follow-
in'? details will show.
2. During the year 138 brains of different species of animals were
examined for rabies of which 109 proved positive, 26 negative and 3
were unfit for examination. Seven hundred and forty pathological
specimens, received from the various districts of Bengal as also from
the College hospital, Army Remount Depot and other sources
were examined. Samples of urine, fæces and milk were also examined.
3. Autopsies were made on carcases received from the Calcutta and
Bengal Police, Zoological Gardens, private bodies and other sources as
well as on all animals which died or were destroyed in this College,
except in cases where a wish had been expressed by the owners to the
contrary. My Senior Assistant of the Laboratory had to give expert
evidence in many cases.
4. Cases of anthrax, glanders, blackquarter, strangles, canine and
bovine piroplasmosis, demodectic scabies in dog, equine and bovine
sura, hæmorrhagic septicæmia, fowl cholera, strongylosis in cattle,
tuberculosis in monkey, rabbit septicaemia; canine hæmogregarinosis,
filariasis, ankylostomiasis and similar entozoal infestations of equines
and bovines were diagnosed.
5. Auto-vaccines were prepared and extensively used in the College
hospital as well as on some hundreds newly imported horses of Army
Remount Depôt with success and were supplied also to other private
bodies. Blood from different species of animals was supplied to the
Imperial Serologist and others and morbid materials to many scientific
workers.
6. Experiments were made with Auto-vaccine prepared at the
Laboratory in the treatment of various skin affections in dogs particularly
of the Demodectic type. No definite opinion can be formed as to the
efficacy of this treatment until a larger number of experiments have
been made.
7. Samples of bone-meal and hide cuttings intended for export
were bacteriologically examined for the detection of anthrax and other
pathogenic organisms.
8. Numerous requisitions for sera, etc., from Calcutta and
mufassal were received. During the year 252,600 doses of anti-
rinderpest serum; 33,940 doses of anti-hæmorrhagic septicæmia serum;
3900 doses of anti-anthrax serum; 485 doses of mallein; 80 doses of
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tuberculin; 200 doses of blackquarter serum; 50 doses of black leg
aggressin and 100 doses of quarter-ill vaccine were supplied.
9. New charts picturing stages of various infective diseases of
animals and slides of well-bred cattle and others of pathological interest
were prepared and sent out to the Demonstration Train for exhibition
as well as to districts at different fairs and shows.
10. At the seventh Congress of the Far Eastern Association of
Tropical Medicine held in Calcutta, in December last, numerous morbid
specimens of varying interest were exhibited.
11. For the purchase of some up-to-date bacteriological apparatus
and instruments, a list was made and submitted to Government for
sanction with a view to being better equipped for the Post-graduate
Course to be started from the next session of the College.
12. The College collection of entozoa was overhauled and reclassi-
fied under the more recent nomenclature. Doubtful specimens are sent
abroad for identification.
13. Mr. Ganguly, Assistant-in-charge, worked during the year with
exceptional keenness and ability.
A. D. MACGREGOR, f.r.c.v.s., i.v.s.,
Principal, Bengal Veterinary College.
Belgachia:
The 1st July 1928.
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TABLE I.
Showing Main Results and Receipts of Expenditure of the Bengal
Veterinary College during the year 1926-27.
Number of student—
Admitted—
Scholarship-holders .. .. .. .. ..
Others .. .. .. .. .. ..
Passed final examination .. .. .. .. ..
Failed to pass final examination .. .. .. ..
Remaining under instruction at the end of the year—
In ordinary course .. .. .. .. ..
Instruction prolonged by reason of failure to pass .. .. ..
Admitted during the year, classed by educational qualifications—
Matriculates .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Knowing some English, but not matriculated .. .. ..
Knowing no English, or very little English .. .. ..
Employment of Students who Passed out during the
Three years preceding.
In service of Government .. .. .. .. ..
In service of other bodies or institutions .. .. .. ..
In private practice .. .. .. .. .. ..
Unemployed .. .. .. .. .. ..
Service discharged, dispensed with or resigned .. .. ..
Died .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
No.
30
27
30
10
81
33
45
12
Nil.
No.
60
13
Nil.
8
2
Nil.
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APPENDIX A.
Statement showing the number of students who joined at the beginning
of the session and remained at the end of it and the results of the
examination.
Number at beginning of the session ..
Number removed, left or advised to withdraw
Number at the close of the session ..
Number appeared at the examination ..
Number passed at the examination ..
Percentage of passes .. .. ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
A.
84
21
63
63
46
73
Classes.
.
B.
41
..
41
41
35
74
C.
40
..
40
40
30
75
Total.
165
21
144
144
111
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TABLE II.
Showing main results of Receipts and Expenditure of the Bengal
Veterinary College during the year 1927-28.
Receipts
Fees, etc.
Instructing staff
Contingencies
..
..
..
..
..
Expenditure.
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Total
..
..
..
..
Rs. a. p.
37,687 0 0
1,28,219 1 0
89,602 9 6
2,17,821 10 6
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Details.
Receipts.
1. Hospital fees .. ..
2. Ambulance fees ..
3. Hostel fees .. ..
4. Fishing fees .. ..
5. Showing fees .. ..
6. Admission fees of students ..
7. Examination fees of students
8. Diploma fees of students ..
9. Fine .. ..
10. Fee for Farrier's class ..
11. Sale proceeds of fodder ..
12. Fees for service of cows ..
13. Inoculation fees and sale of sera
14. Carcass removal fees ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
15. Fee for hide and bone meal examination
16. Sale proceeds of utensils ..
17. Miscellaneous receipts :—
..
House rent of Gymnasium Instructor ..
Sale of Trochetary tubes ..
Sale of horse shoes ..
Sale of horse blood ..
Rent from washerman ..
Glanders horse bill ..
Sale of milk .. ..
Sale of Newspapers ..
Sale of old bottles ..
Sale of old iron, etc. ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Total
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Rs. a. P.
24,461 12 9
410 0 0
4,581 6 0
527 0 0
117 0 0
920 0 0
757 8 0
220 0 0
116 1 0
40 0 0
2,590 4 0
566 0 0
1,917 6 3
125 0 0
73 4 0
90 0 0
37,502 10 0
44 0 0
30 8 0
4 0 0
30 0 0
25 0 0
24 0 0
12 10 9
2 5 0
5 15 0
6 0 0
184 6 9
37,687 0 9
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Expenditure.
1. Principal and other Teaching staff :—
Voted .. .. ..
Non-voted .. .. ..
2. House rent and other allowances—
Voted .. .. ..
Non-voted .. .. ..
3. Technical staff .. .. ..
4. Clerks .. .. ..
5. Servants .. .. ..
6. Constables, etc. .. .. ..
7. Travelling allowances—
Non-voted .. .. ..
Voted .. .. ..
8. Pay of Inspectors of the College ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
9. Pay of Veterinary Assistant Surgeons of the College
Contingencies :—
1. Boarding charges
..
..
2. Medical and surgical requisites
3. Purchase and keep of cattle ..
4. Prizes .. .. ..
5. Purchase of books .. ..
6. Rent, rates and taxes .. ..
7. Other contingent charges .. ..
8. Stipend (Bengal Government) ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Total
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Rs. A. p.
42,919 15 0
16,462 5 0
1,888 9 0
3,944 3 0
7,768 1 0
13,280 7 0
3,915 5 0
4,951 14 0
1,920 0 0
597 3 0
29,107 0 0
1,464 3 0
128,219 1 0
856 7 0
7,145 10 9
24,391 4 3
545 13 0
888 13 0
6,810 15 6
47,988 14 0
974 12 0
89,602 9 6
2,17,821 10 6
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TABLE VII.
Showing the total strength of provincial and subordinate veterinary
staff employed during the year 1927-28.
Province.
1
Bengal ..
How
employed.
2
In Schools
and Col-
leges.
In Hospital
In other
work.
Whether
paid from
Provincial
or Local
funds.
3
Provincial
Do.
Do.
Veterinary
Inspectors.
4
....
2
10
Veterinary
Assistant
Surgeons.
5
....
1
1
Teaching
staff.
6
7
....
....
Remarks.
7
Assistant Principal
Lecturers
Assistant Lecturer
Laboratory Assis-
tant ..
Glanders Inspec-
tors
Chief
Veterinary
Inspector
Curator
and
Librarian
1
5
1
7
1
8
1
10
1
TABLE VIII.
Showing return of stud hulls of the Bengal Veterinary College for the
year 1927-28.
Property of Government—
Number on 1st April 1927 .. ..
Casualties during the year .. ..
Balance remaining on 31st March 1928
..
..
..
..
..
..
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GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL.
Agriculture and Industries Department.
Veterinary.
DARJEELING, the 17th OCTOBER 1928.
RESOLUTION—No. 615T—A. I.
Minister-in-charge: The Hon'ble Raja Bhupendra Narayan Sinha
Bahadur, of Nashipur.
Read—
Annual Reports of the Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal, and
of the Bengal Veterinary College for the year 1927-28.
I.—Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal.
Mr. P. J. Kerr held charge of the office of the Director of Civil
Veterinary Department and Veterinary Adviser to the Government
of Bengal, with a short period of absence owing to illness, from the
beginning of the year until 23rd September when he proceeded on
long leave. Mr. R. T. Davis officiated for him for the remainder of
the year. Rai Sahib S. C. Pal and Babu N. N. Mazumdar, Assistant
Directors, were in charge of the Western and Eastern Ranges,
respectively, throughout the year.
2. The Director, not without justification, couches his general
remarks in a tone of some despondency—want of funds have prevented
several important schemes being brought into being, such as the free
supply of serum, the appointment of 9 extra Staff Veterinary Assistant
Surgeons, and the appointment of a Veterinary Inspector for propa-
ganda work. Nor has it been possible to make any progress with the
long-standing question of the revision of the pay of the Veterinary
Assistant Surgeons. On the side of local bodies who employ and bear
two-thirds of the cost of the subordinate veterinary staff there is too often
evident an apparent failure to appreciate the important bearing that the
control of epidemic diseases, together with the ordinary care of animals,
has on the prosperity of the country. This attitude is reflected also,
as the Principal, Bengal Veterinary College, observes, in the steady
fall in the number of District Board stipends awarded to students at
the college. Consequently, the staff shows little or no expansion and
in one case a local body has got rid of the Veterinary Assistant
Surgeon whom it had hitherto been entertaining. It must be
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4. His Excellency, acting with his Minister, notices with
pleasure the names of officers of the Department who did good work
during the year and desires also to acknowledge the care and atten-
tion which Messrs. Kerr and Davis devoted to their duties.
II.—Bengal Veterinary College.
5. Mr. A. D. MacGregor held charge as Principal throughout
the year. Mr. R. T. Davis was Vice-Principal from 1st April up to
22nd September when he was appointed to act as Director, Civil
Veterinary Department, and Mr. S. S. Ahmad did Mr. Davis' duties
as Vice-Principal up to the end of the year. Rai Sahib Dibakar
Dey, the Assistant Principal, was on leave from 5th May to 1st
November and in his absence Babu D. K. Sen and Mr. S. S. Ahmad
acted for him at different periods.
The Hon'ble Minister records with regret the death during the
year of Babu N. L. Mitter, a lecturer and a member of the Provin-
cial Service.
6. The number of students again showed an increase and there
were 144 on the rolls at the close of the session as against 125 in the
previous year. Of these, 46 were from Bengal as against 32 last year,
but the Bihar and Orissa students fell from 66 to 53. The rest
included students from Persia, Ceylon, Bhutan, Penang and Iraq.
On the results of the animal examinations, the Board of Examiners
stated that they considered the results were highly satisfactory and
that the students as a whole had been well taught. Though it is a
source of satisfaction to have the college well filled with students, it
is still more important that there should be sufficient employment for
them after they have finished their course, and unless there is an
expansion of veterinary activity among local bodies it is to be feared
that the employment for all passed students may not be forthcoming.
A four months' training class for farriers and dressers was opened
during the year and promises to be popular.
7. During the year 2,561 patients were treated and 469 opera-
tions performed as against 2,562 and 374, respectively, last year.
The college was self-supporting to the extent that the fees realised
from patients just balanced the cost of feed (including both patients
and college animals). Fodder crops were again grown successfully
and the sale of surplus fodder realised Rs. 2,590, or Rs. 1,000 more
than in last year.
The new Dissection theatre, which was opened during the year,
will be a valuable addition to the equipment of the college.
Useful work was as usual carried out at the Raymond Research
Laboratory, where 138 brains of animals suspected of rabies and
many other pathological specimens were examined.
8. The Committee of Management held three meetings during
the year, which were, on the whole, well attended.
9. His Excellency, acting with his Minister, notices with pleasure
the names of those of the staff whom the Principal mentions for good
work during the year and desires to acknowledge also the services of
Mr. MacGregor himself.
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10. The Minister would conclude this resolution by stating that
he has to discharge the duty of reviewing the administration of a
year in the policy or supervision of which he had no hand and so
naturally he had to proceed on records as he found them. The diffi-
culties of his delicate task have been further enhanced by the fact
that he had to undertake this duty even before he had a reasonable
time to shape his own policy.
By order of the Government of Bengal
(Ministry of Agriculture).,
R. N. REID,
Secretary to the Government
of Bengal.
No. 5228-29.
Copy forwarded to the—
Veterinary Adviser to the Government of Bengal,
Principal, Bengal Veterinary College,
for information.
No. 5230.
Copy forwarded to the Local Self-Government Department of this
Government, for information.
By order of the Government of Bengal.
(Ministry of Agriculture),
J. C. SEN,
Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bengal
Calcutta:
Agri. & Indus. Dept.,
The 30th October 1928.
B. G. Press—24 1-1929-1695M—343-J. A
Government of Bengal
Annual Reports of the
Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal
and Bengal Veterinary College
For the Year
1928-29
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal.
Preface and General Administration.
Officer in charge, duration of tours, etc. .. .. .. ..
Part 1.—Veterinary Instruction.
Veterinary Instruction .. .. .. .. ..
Part II.—Treatment of Diseases.
Contagious diseases in equines and bovines .. .. ..
Preventive inoculation .. .. .. .. ..
Itinerant Veterinary Assistant Surgeons .. .. .. ..
Veterinary hospitals and dispensaries .. .. .. ..
Part III.—Breeding Operations.
Stud bulls .. .. .. .. .. ..
Fairs and shows .. .. .. .. .. ..
Bull-breeding and rearing farms .. .. .. ..
Part IV.—Subordinate Staff.
Appointment and retirement .. .. .. .. ..
Part V.—General Remarks.
General remarks
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..
..
..
.. .. ..
Tables.
Table
II .. .. .. .. .. ..
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„ V .. .. .. .. .. ..
„ VII .. .. .. .. .. ..
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VIII .. .. .. .. .. ..
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