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improved by the addition of a dispensing room and office, while furniture
and instruments have also been provided. The assistant's quarters were
enlarged and made habitable. The Manager, Captain Rutherford, D.S.O.,
takes keen interest in the success of the hospital.
33. Palamau.—The decrease in the number of patients treated at this
dispensary is most noticeable, being 273 against 3,765 of the previous year;
the reason of the fall is due to the fact that fewer outbreaks of diseases were
reported to the Veterinary Assistant, and also that in the previous year
inoculations and old cases were mixed up with the hospital returns. This
dispensary will never have very many inpatients, owing to the backward
condition of the people and to the very few animals which are worth sending
to the hospital. Only one in-patient was treated during the year.
34. Muzaffarpur.—The work of this dispensary continues to be satis-
factory, and reflects credit on the Veterinary Assistant, B. B. Mitter. Nine
hundred and sixty-five patients were treated, against 894 of the previous year.
35. Howrah.—This dispensary is under the control of the Principal,
Bengal Veterinary College.
36. Monghyr.—There has been a slight decrease in the total number of in
and out-patients, 117 in and 1,110 out-being treated, against 136 and
1,219 of the previous year. The Veterinary Assistant complains that but little
interest is taken in the dispensary by native gentlemen and to this fact must
be attributed the decrease.
37. Purnea.—The total number of in-patients treated at this dispensary
was 973, against 1,074 of the previous year. The decrease calls for no special
comment. The work of the assistant has been satisfactory.
38. Sitamarhi.—The total number of cases treated by this assistant was
623, against 939 of the previous year. The cause of the decrease is stated by
the Committee to be due to the discontinuance of the practice of recording
cases for which advice only is given. I am inclined, however, to believe that
it was due to the fact, that the last incumbent did not work satisfactorily,
and had therefore to be removed to the post of Itinerant Veterinary Assistant
of the Sadar subdivision, the frequent changing of assistants has also told against
the success of the dispensary. Quarters have been provided in the dispensary
compound for the compounder at a cost of Rs. 500.
39. Dumka.—The number of out-patients declined to 1,299, as compared
with 2,568 of 1908-09. The decrease is due to the fact that (1) the figures of
the previous year included inoculations, and (2) that the practice of entering
animals for which advice only is given has been stopped. The number of
in-patients shows a slight increase.
40. Ranchi.—This dispensary has continued to progress satisfactorily.
There were 47 in- and 1,070 out-patients during the year, against 44 and 952
respectively of the corresponding period of the previous year. The shoeing
forge is proving a success, as 444 horses were shod, against 293 of the previous
year. Owing to want of funds the question of acquiring a new site for the
dispensary has had to be abandoned.
41. Bankipore.—This hospital was removed from the old building to
Sabjibagh on the 1st of August. It is very complete and has been provided
with eight ordinary stalls and three loose boxes, with Veterinary Assistant's and
menial's quarters and a small godown, A pucca well has also been sunk while
a shed for the treatment of the out-patients and an operation shed are now
under construction. There has been a satisfactory increase in the number of
in-patients during the year. The decrease in the number of out-patients was
due to the inclusion of 58 ponies for soundness during the renewal of the
hackney carriage licenses in the previous year. The Veterinary Assistant is
doing good work.
42. Cuttack.—This dispensary is gaining in popularity and doing good
work. The number of patients treated this year is 1,465, against 1,158 of the
previous year.
43. Suri.—The number of out-patients treated shows a large decrease,
owing to the fact that in last year's returns inoculated animals were included.
The assistant is working satisfactorily.
44. Laherai Serai.—There has been a large decrease here due to the fact
that the attendances at the hospital of old patients, were put down as new