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TABLE XI
Statement showing services and produce of each class of horse, pony and donkey stallions under local bodies
during the year 1929-30
Horse, pony or donkey
1
Horse ...
Pony ... ...
Donkey ... ...
District or agency
2
Peshawar
...
Kohat
...
Bannu ...
Dera Ismail Khan ...
Kurram
...
Total
Bannu ...
Total ...
Peshawar
...
Kohat ...
Bannu
...
Dera Ismail Khan ...
Kurram ...
Malakand ...
Total ...
Stallions on register on
31 March 1930
3
6
1
6
4
1
18
1
1
5
3
3
3
3
1
18
Stallions actually
employed at stud
Year
under
report
4
6
1
4
4
1
16
1
1
4
3
3
3
3
1
17
Previous year
5
4
2
4
4
1
15
1
1
3
3
3
3
2
1
15
Number of mares
covered
Year
under
report
6
217
26
209
155
18
625
75
75
228
110
175
48
93
33
692
Previous year
7
189
46
219
161
27
642
74
74
149
134
172
93
66
17
631
Average number
of mares covered
per stallion employed
at stud
Year
under
report
8
36.1
26.0
54.25
38.7
18.0
39.09
75
75
57.0
36.6
58.3
16.0
31 0
38.0
40.7
Previous year
9
47.2
23.0
54.7
40.2
27.0
42.8
74
74
49.6
44.6
57.3
31.0
33.0
17.0
42.07
Remarks
10
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TABLE XII
Statement showing average cost of feed, keep, attendance, etc., of horse, pony and donkey stallions
during the year 1929-30
District or agency
1
Peshawar ...
Kohat ...
Bannu ...
Kurram
...
Malakand ...
Dera Ismail Khan
...
Total
Average
...
Horse
Year under
report
2
Rs.
3,374
2,226
2,106
845
...
1,928
10,479
2,095
a.
0
0
0
1
2
3
13
p.
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
Previous
year
3
Rs.
4,299
1,605
...
531
...
1,637
8,073
2,018
a.
0
0
15
5
5
5
p.
0
0
3
10
1
3
Pony
Year under
report
4
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
666
666
666
a.
6
6
6
p.
5
5
5
Previous
year
5
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
455
455
455
a.
1
1
1
p.
0
0
0
Donkey
Year under
report
6
Rs.
1,476
1,199
896
1,870
366
1,300
7,108
1,184
a.
0
0
0
10
3
8
5
11
p.
0
0
0
0
0
3
3
6
Previous
year
7
Rs.
2,512
935
...
835
203
1,328
5,814
1,162
a.
0
0
14
10
5
14
15
p.
0
0
6
0
7
1
7
Remarks
8
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TABLE XIII
Abstract of particulars regarding horse fairs and shows held in non-selected districts during the year 1929-30
District
1
Dera Ismail Khan ...
Bannu ...
Peshawar ...
Total...
Number of horse fairs and shows held
2
1
1
1
3
Total
number of
animals
present
Year under report
3
259
281
158
698
Previous year
4
321
268
...
589
Total
number
competing
for prizes
Year under report
5
104
219
125
448
Previous year
6
124
232
...
356
Total number
of horse
stock (not
including
branded
mares)
present
Belonging to breeders
7
259
281
158
698
Belonging to dealers
8
...
...
...
...
Number of remounts
purchased
For
Remount De part-
ment
9
...
...
...
...
For Indian Cavalry
10
...
...
...
...
For Police
11
...
...
2
2
Total
12
...
...
2
2
Price paid for
remounts
Highest price
13
Rs.
...
...
340
340
Lowest price
14
Rs.
...
...
300
300
Average price
15
Rs.
...
...
320
320
Number of mules
purchased
By Government
16
...
...
...
...
By others
17
...
...
...
...
Total
18
...
...
...
...
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TABLE XIII—concluded
Abstract of particulars regarding horse fairs and shows held in non-selected districts during the year 1929-30
District
1
Dera Ismail Khan ...
Bannu ...
Peshawar ...
Total
...
Price paid for mules
by Government
Highest price
19
Rs.
...
...
...
...
Lowest price
20
Rs.
...
...
...
...
Average price
21
Rs.
...
...
...
...
Tot al number of animals sold
22
...
...
...
...
Prize-money provided
From Imperial funds
23
Rs.
...
500
...
500
From
Provincial funds
24
Rs.
650
...
1,000
1,650
From local funds
25
Rs.
2,700
1,350
...
4,050
From other sources
26
Rs.
...
...
...
...
Total
27
Rs.
3,350
1,850
1,000
6,200
Amount actually awarded
28
Rs.
650
678
948
2,276
Nu mb e r of medals awarded
29
1
1
1
3
Amount sanctioned by Government of
India for next year's fair or show
30
Rs.
650
750
...
1,400
Remarks
31
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TABLE XIV
A bstract of particulars regarding cattle fairs and shows held during the year 1929-30
District
1
Dera
Ismail
Khan
...
Bannu
...
Peshawar
...
Haripur
...
Total
Number of cattle fairs and shows held
2
1
1
1
1
4
Total number of stock present
Bulls
3
51
99
33
94
277
Bullocks
4
51
103
62
37
253
Cows
5
109
155
70
133
467
Young stock
6
26
31
34
101
192
Buffaloes
7
83
159
96
85
423
Camels
8
91
...
84
...
175
Others
9
50
46
29
61
186
Average price of
animal sold
Bulls
10
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
Bullocks
11
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
Cows
12
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
Boffaloes
13
Rs.
...
...
200
...
200
Camels
14
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
Amo u n t r e a l i z e d in fees
15
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
Total
number of animals that compet-
ed for prizes
16
381
524
263
511
1,679
Prize money provided
From Imperial funds
17
Rs.
400
1,500
...
...
1,900
From Provincial funds
18
Rs.
...
750
...
500
1,250
From local funds
19
Rs.
1,040
1,500
950
500
3,990
From other sources
20
Rs.
...
350
...
...
350
Total
21
Rs.
1,440
4,100
950
1,000
7,490
Amount actually awarded
22
Rs.
906
699
842
965
3,412
Nu mb e r of medals awarded
23
2
2
2
3
9
Re ma r
ks
24
*
* Aslam Cup awarded to the owner of the best milch cow.
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TABLE XIV-A.
Statement showing cost of the Civil Veterinary Department during the
official year in the North West Frontier Province for 1929-30
Minor beads
1
Superintendence...
Subordinate establishment ...
Breeding operations
...
Fairs, shows and rewards
Deduct cost of veterinary
assistants recovered
from
local bodies...
Total ...
Amount
2
Rs.
23,486
43,348
11,602
2,500
80,937
a.
8
2
13
0
8
p.
8
9
3
0
3
Remarks
3
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Proceeding of the Hon'ble the Chief Commissioner and Agent to the Governor-General
North West Frontier Province, No, 15111-Rev., dated 24 November 1931.
READ—
Report on the working of the Civil Veterinary Department for the
year ending 31 March 1931.
There was a notable increase during the year in the
number of cases of contagious disease. This was accounted
for principally by a severe outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease among bovines. As the rate of mortality for this
disease is low, the percentage of mortality dropped from
eleven to five per cent. Of a total of approximately 22,000
cases of contagious disease, more than 21,000 were cases
of foot-and-mouth disease.
The Superintendent, Civil
Veterinary Department, is of opinion that most of this disease
is imported through Attock. He has suggested an inspec-
tion post, but this would need legislation which would only
be justified after verifying the correctness of the supposition
that cattle imported through Attock are responsible.
It
appears, however, that the disease was principally prevalent
in the Kurram Agency and in Kohat. It is at least
possible therefore that flocks entering for winter grazing
viâ Parachinar were the carriers.
Black quarter in Hazara and Peshawar was also more
prevalent than last year, and it is noticed that where
inoculation was undertaken it was successful.
There was no increase in the number of stationary
veterinary hospitals, but one was added to the number of
touring dispensaries, and a very large increase is noted in
the number of cases dealt with by these useful institutions.
They probably do more than anything else to increase the
popularity of veterinary work, and are more likely to
receive the support of local bodies, often grudgingly given,
than are stationary institutions.
Cattle-breeding under the subsidized bull scheme
continues to progress, and it is satisfactory to notice an
increase of thirty-one stud bulls during the year and to
observe that this scheme has the full cooperation of district
boards.
The Chief Commissioner notes with interest the proposal
to approach the problem of sheep-breeding. This is a
staple industry of the Kagan and other high valleys of the
Hazara District; and in other parts of the Province the
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production of mutton and wool are of considerable interest
as a subsidiary source of revenue to the cultivator.
The breeding of ponies and donkeys is still of impor-
tance in those parts of the Province where the mountainous
nature of the country makes those animals the most useful
and often the only means of transport.
There are five stipendiary students from the Province
at the Punjab Veterinary College, Lahore, and four more
scholarships have recently been sanctioned by the Govern-
ment of India.
The financial situation does not hold out great hopes
of large expansion in the Department in the near future;
but the Government of India has sanctioned for 1931 four
new posts of veterinary assistant surgeons and for the
following year a further three posts. This will at least
permit the Province to expand in the direction of touring
dispensaries, even if for the present such needs as a labora-
tory must be held in abeyance.
The Government of India has also promised further
assistance in the near future in the shape of grants to
subsidizing stud bulls. In both these matters therefore
substantial, if not rapid, progress can be made.
The Chief Commissioner would like to impress on the
revenue staff the importance of early reports of contagious
disease, and hopes that notice will be taken of cases in which
the subordinate staff fails in this duty.
In conclusion the Chief Commissioner is pleased to
acknowledge the efforts made by the Superintendent and
his staff during the year to extend the benefits of their
professional skill to the rural population.
ORDER.—Ordered that a copy of the report and
review be submitted to the Government of India, Depart-
ment of Education, Health and Lands, and that copies be
circulated for information.
By order of the Hon'ble the Chief Commissioner
and Agent to the Governor-General, North
West Frontier Province,
J. S. THOMSON,
Revenue Secretary to the Chief Commissioner,
North West Frontier Province.
ANNUAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT
OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT,
NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE
FOR THE YEAR
1930-31
PART I-GENERAL
ADMINISTRA-
TION.
1. Charge—
Mr. S. M. A. Shah remained in charge of the Civil
Veterinary Department, North West Frontier Province,
throughout the year under report with the exception of the
period 2 February to 31 March 1931—during this time
Ch. Ghulam Qadir Khan, Deputy Superintendent, Civil
Veterinary Department, acted for him.
2. Extent and duration of officers' tour —
Mr. Shah was on tour for 133 days and
Ch. Ghulam Qadir Khan for fourteen days only. The
former travelled 7,810 miles by road and 1,257 by rail and
the latter 110 miles by road and 894 by rail, respectively.
3. Work performed on tour—
During
his incumbency, Mr. Shah
inspected
all veterinary hospitals, stallion stables, subsidy bulls with
their progeny and touring dispensaries in the Province,
checked the work of the subordinate officers as far as
practicable and explained to the villagers the utility of this
Department, wherever possible, visited many villages where
outbreaks of cattle disease occurred personally verifying
the results of inoculations, inspected the offices of the
Veterinary Inspectors, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan,
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besides he attended some meetings of the district boards
and acted as a member of the judging committee at two
important horse shows and cattle fairs held at Bannu and
Haripur. He also inspected sites and buildings selected
for the proposed touring veterinary dispensaries.
During his tours the Superintendent inspected all the
constabulary lines in the Province, examined horses located
in each line and proposed specific treatment for sick animals
from time to time. He detected ten cases, viz. nine horses
and one camel of surra in Daraban, where a temporary
surra centre was started with the result that not a single
death took place.
During the months of June and July Mr. Shah
toured in the Kaghan Valley to investigate the possibilities
of encouraging sheep-breeding in the valley.
Two donkey stallions were purchased from Hissar
for Peshawar District during the year under report.
During his short incumbency, the Deputy Superintend-
ent, Ch. Ghulam Qadir Khan, attended one important horse
show and fair held at Dera Ismail Khan and acted there
as a member of the judging committee.
During his inspection on tour, the Deputy Superintend-
ent observed very carefully the practical work of the
veterinary assistants and gave useful advice and instruc-
tions. He attended Gujar Khan and Talla-Gang Cattle
Fairs with a view to select and purchase suitable bulls
for various local bodies in the Province. Fifty bulls were
purchased according to the requirments of the Province.
Tonga ponies plying on roads for hire were also
inspected for glanders and other contagious diseases, and
several cases were sent for treatment to the adjacent
hospitals. He also attended district board meeting at
Peshawar.
4. Mortality—Table II—
Fortunately rinderpest was milder in form this year
than last year. This disease was responsible for only ninety
deaths. Most of the deaths were due to hæmorrhagic
septicæmia, black quarter and anthrax which are very
fatal diseases.
5. Pathological specimens—
Eighty-five pathological specimens and smears were
examined during the year under report, out of which
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sixty-two proved positive for different diseases, chiefly for
surra and piroplasmosis.
SECTION I-A-EQUINE CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES.
6. Motality—Table II —
There were 272 cases out of which sixteen animals
died as against eleven cases which all proved fatal during
the last year. The increase in number of cases is mainly
due to serious outbreaks of influenza and surra at Bannu,
Daraban and Tank in police and constabulary remounts.
7. Glanders—
Thirteen animals were tested with mallein out of which
six proved positive (four from Peshawar and one from
Malakand and one from Bannu).
All were dealt with
under Glanders and Farcy Act. Rs. 115 (one hundred and
fifteen) only awarded as compensation, against Rs. 295 last
year.
8. Surra—
There were outbreaks of this disease in Malakand
Agency and Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan districts. It was
all the more severe in Dera Ismail Khan District, particularly
among constabulary remounts at Daraban. Nine positive
cases were discovered in horses and one camel, whereupon
adequate arrangements for starting temporary centre of
treatment at Daraban were made from headquarters.
Twenty-two animals received treatment at this centre and
it is gratifying to note that not a single mortality took place
during the course of treatment. This disease seems to have
been imported in Dera Ismail Khan through the camels of
the Powindahs.
9. Dourine, anthrax and other
contagious
diseases—
Three cases of anthrax were reported from Peshawar
District. There was a serious outbreak of influenza amongst
the police remounts at Bannu. Two hundred and twenty-
five cases were reported out of which only three died.
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SECTION I-B—BOVINE CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES.
10. Mortality—
The number of cases reported this time is much greater
than the last year, though there is a distinct drop in
mortality. Such an extraordinary increase in the number
of cases is chiefly due to serious outbreaks of foot-and-
mouth disease, which prevailed throughout the Province
except Malakand. There were 9,562 cases and 995 deaths
last year as compared to 16,665 cases and 827 deaths during
the current year, which means that vigorous curative
measures were adopted by the staff.
Particulars of the outbreaks of contagious diseases in
respect of the year under report are shown in table II.
11. Rinderpest—
There were 251 cases and ninety deaths during the
current year, against 1,358 cases and 526 deaths last year.
This disease occurred in two districts of the Province,
viz. Hazara and Peshawar, during the year under report.
Prompt measures were adopted, timely inoculations
performed and hence the disease was nipped in the bud.
12. Preventive inoculation against rinderpest—
Table III-
Inoculations against rinderpest were performed in
twelve villages with serum alone method. Two thousand
and twenty-one animals were inoculated and all survived
except one which was already sick which was inoculated at
the explicit request of the owner.
The best method of inoculation against the disease is
the serum simultaneous method, but the staff is not
sufficiently trained to use this.
13. Foot-and-mouth disease—
A great number of cattle of very poor quality is
imported from Punjab to this Province, viâ Attock. Most
of these cattle are the refuse of the Punjab and are brought
to this Province for butchering, These cattle have been
responsible for more outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in
he cattle of Peshawar District.
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Foot-and-mouth disease was very widespread through-
out the Province during the year under report, specially in
Kohat District and Kurram Agency, though the comparative
number of deaths was not so high. Altogether 19,817
animals were affected, resulting only in 184 deaths, as against
7,445 cases and seventy-five deaths during the previous year.
14. Hæmorrhagic septicæmia—
This disease was specially severe in the low lying areas
of Peshawar and Hazara districts. This malady altogether
accounted for 453 seizures and 233 deaths as compared to
562 cases and 376 deaths during the previous year.
15 Preventive inoculation—Table III—
Four thousand, nine hundred
and forty-three
inoculations were carried out with serum alone method in
twenty-five villages, against 4,831 inoculations in thirteen
villages last year.
The rural population has now begun to realize and
appreciate the good results of inoculations.
16. Black quarter—Table II—
This malady was far more severe this time than the
last year. There were 526 cases and 383 deaths during the
current year, against eighty-two cases and fifty-eight deaths
last year. This was particularly severe in the Hazara and
Peshawar districts. Vaccinations were carried out in the
low-lying villages of the Hazara District as preventive
measures. As in the previous year, the highest mortality by
this disease once again took place in the Hazara District.
In certain cases the disease was diagnosed
microscopically.
17. Vaccinations—
One thousand, two hundred and forty susceptible
animals were vaccinated by black quarter aggressin in six
villages of the Hazara District and it is a pleasure to note
that after vaccinations the disease did not spread in these
villages at all.
18. Other contagious diseases—Table II—
Sixty-five cases and forty-one deaths took place this
year, against eighty-eight cases and ten deaths last year,
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19. Expenditure on sera and vaccine—
A sum of Rs. 11,000 was spent on the purchase of sera
and vaccine as against Rs. 12,895 last year.
SECTION I-C-CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
OTHER ANIMALS.
20. Contagious diseases—Table II—
Detail of diseases which occurred among other animals
during the year is as under:—
Name of disease
(1) Foot-and-mouth
...
(2) Rinderpest ...
(3) Other contagious, such as foot-rot,
rinderpest, influenza and mange,
etc.
(4) Pleuro-pneumonia and anthrux
...
During the year
1930-31
Cases
4,447
...
538
47
Deaths
104
...
202
47
During the year
1929-30
Cases
1,954
286
142
994
Deaths
16
223
120
113
From the statement it is evident that there was no
rinderpest among other animals, though there were many
cases of foot-rot, ranikhet anthrax and pleuro-Pneumonia
during the year.
21. Rabies—
Sixty cases of rabies were reported, most of: them were
from Kohat, Abbottabad and Peshawar. Brains of twenty-
two cases were sent to Kasauli for examination, out of which
eighteen proved positive. One member of the staff had to
undergo anti-rabic treatment during the year.
Fifty-six dogs were vaccinated against rabies, out of
them five died.
22. Distemper—
This highly contagious and fatal disease amongst canines
prevailed throughout the Province during the year, especially
in Kohat, Peshawar and Hazara districts. Two hundred
and eighteen cases were brought to various hospitals, out of
them 155 cured. The deaths that took place from this
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disease were chiefly due to the fact that many cases were
brought too late for treatment. Fifty-nine dogs were
vaccinated. All recovered except nine.
23. Piroplasmosis in dogs—
Thirty-one cases were brought for treatment at the
headquarter hospital. They were treated with sulpharsenol.
Seventy-seven per cent. were brought to hospital at an early
stage and hence recovered.
24. Canine typhus—
No case was reported during the year under report.
25. Fowl cholera—
One hundred and fifty cases of this disease were treated
in various veterinary hospitals of the Province during the
year. Fifty per cent. recovered.
26. Fowl diptheria—
Twenty-five cases of this disease were successfully
treated at Civil Veterinary Hospital, Peshawar and Kohat,
respectively.
27. Tetanus—
Twenty-eight cases were reported and treated on
scientific lines. Serum was used on several occasions as a
prophylactic with good results.
28. Strangles—
Thirty-four cases were reported, All were successfully
treated in the various veterinary hospitals of the Province.
29. Pyæmia—
No case was reported during the year.
30. Criminal poisoning—
Ten post martem examinations were conducted by the
staff, out of which eight proved positive cases of arsenic.
This crime usually takes place in Hazara District.
SECTION II-OTHER CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
31. Treatment of diseases in villages—Table IV—
During the year under report 2,774 villages were