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observation at the close of the last year. Of these, 90 were destroyed (86 for
Glanders and 4 for Surra) and 8 died in the hospital; 315 were discharged, after
mallein test, as free from the disease, and 7 remained under observation. I am
extending the system of testing suspicious and in-contact cases by arrangement
with the garriwallahs. There was no friction with owners of horses.
3. The system of paying compensation to poor people whose horses were
destroyed under the Act and the payment of a small fee to persons who gave
information of outbreaks of disease was continued during the year. In 23
cases, compensation amounting to Rs. 503 and in 6 cases, fees amounting to
Rs. 8 were paid, making a total of Rs. 511.
4. While the Remount Depôt at Garden Reach was closed from April to
October, 2,757 horses and 41 cattle were inspected by the Glanders Staff on
boardship in the Port of Calcutta. No clinical symptoms of infectious disease
were observed.
5. With the sanction of the Hon'ble Mr. Earle, Chairman of the Calcutta
Corporation, I have taken over, as part of the duties of my staff which works
under Act XIII of 1899, the management of outbreaks of infectious disease
amongst the cattle of all kinds in Calcutta. Hitherto I have only dealt
officially with equine disease. This extension which was foreshadowed in the
anti-glanders scheme submitted in 1904 to Government also connotates the
presentation, practically free of cost to the rate-payers, of the help of a
veterinary adviser and a veterinary staff to the Corporation, if they choose
to make use of them. A simple system of mutual intelligence has been
arranged between the Health Officer and myself whereby we shall keep
ourselves mutually informed of outbreaks which come to our notice. As
cattle-owners and milkmen are no less subject to scares in Calcutta than in
the mufassal, our work will have to progress gradually, in order to prevent
panics; the first thing is to prove to cattle-owners that we are their friends
and helpers.
6. Two thousand four hundred and forty-three head of cattle were
inoculated against Rinderpest in Calcutta and suburbs by the Glanders Staff.
The details of inoculations have been included in Table III of the Depart-
mental Report.
7. Dourine.—A Bill for legislation has been passed by the Government
of India. So far no case has come to notice.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RAYMOND RESEARCH LABORATORY
FOR THE YEAR 1909-1910.
1. The staff of the Laboratory remained the same. The Laboratory
has been declared "a place" for the diagnosis of diseases of animals belonging
to the Army, but so far no specimens have been received. A considerable
improvement has been made in my post-mortem room by the purchase of up-
to-date furniture.
2. The report may be divided into sections as in the previous year.
SECTION I.
Glanders and Farcy.—The total number of horses specially examined in
the Laboratory in connection with Glanders and Farcy was 27.
No case of Epizootic Lymphangitis or South African Horse Sickness or
Dourine was diagnosed.
Surra.—By taking temperatures of all equines and bovines in the
hospital twice a day during the fly season and isolating suspicious cases in fly-
proof boxes we were able to discover, by means of microscope, several cases
and prevent the spread of the disease in its earliest stages. An outbreak of
Surra in dogs came to my notice. The experiments for the prophylaxis
of Surra have been discontinued; the problem has been solved by Captain
Holmes, the Imperial Bacteriologist, to whom I offer hearty congratulation.