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VI.—OFFICE STAFF.
57. During the year under report an office manager, two clerks, and another
peon were added to the strength but it has recently been found necessary to ask for
sanction for four additional clerks and a second typist. As usual the manager,
Mr. S. B. Daniel, and the head clerk, M.R.Ry. R. Lakshminarayana Nayudu, worked
most loyally and efficiently, and the work of V. Natesa Pillai was considered satis-
factory enough to merit his confirmation as head accountant. The two office
veterinary assistants, V. Janakirama Ayyar and A. R. Venkatachallam Ayyar, also
deserve mention.
VII.—GENERAL REMARKS.
58. The final proof of the departmental Manual was in the press at the end of
the year and copies have since been received and supplied to all concerned.
59. Leaflet No. 3, being further notes on some common ailments and poisoning
of cattle, was distributed throughout the Presidency during the year, and leaflet
No. 4, on rinderpest, was in the press.
60. Government having sanctioned the proposal of the Superintendent to print
the annual establishment list of this department corrected up to the 1st April each
year, it was decided to hold the annual promotion examination for veterinary
assistants of the third grade in March, instead of in July as before. Accordingly
two promotion examinations were conducted by the Superintendent and the Principal
of the Madras Veterinary College during the year under report, one in July 1918,
and the other on 27th and 28th February and 1st March 1919.
At the first 6 out of 14. candidates passed, and at the second 9 out of the 17
who appeared.
61. Government have ordered that the approval of the Superintendent of this
department should be obtained in future for the type-designs, and to deviations from
them, of such buildings as slaughter-houses, and stables attached to public buildings.
62. As many horses are imported into this Presidency in the course of a year by
sea through the ports of Calicut and Mangalore, the veterinary assistants in charge
of the hospitals in those towns have been instructed to inspect each shipload of
animals on arrival and take any action that is necessary under the Glanders and
Farcy Act.
63. Government have delegated to the Superintendent powers relating to the
appointment, promotion, and punishment of and grant of leave to veterinary inspec-
tors, and for the transfer of veterinary assistants to foreign service within the
Province, except to a Native State.
64. There is still a good deal of slackness on the part of some village officers in
reporting outbreaks of contagious disease for the staff had to make 230 reports to
Collectors in this connexion during the year. The Touring Veterinary Assistant,
Chingleput district, came across 22 such cases.
65. M.R.Ry. T. N. Nachiyappa Chettiyar Avargal offered to construct at his
own expense a pump shed and water trough, costing Rs. 2,350, at the Cuddalore
Veterinary hospital, and Government have accepted his offer with pleasure.
66. The division of the Presidency into four comparatively small charges, each
under a Deputy Superintendent, has permitted a much closer check to be kept on
the subordinate staff, and the Superintendent wishes to acknowledge with thanks
the great help he has received in this direction from the four officers mentioned
under the heading 'Deputy Superintendents'
Their appointment has relieved the Superintendent from the necessity of carry-
ing out many of his former routine inspections, thus enabling him to tour where
most required, but it has naturally increased his office and administrative work.
67. The addition of more Imperial officers is still an ever-present want, both
for the sake of their influence on and example to the executive staff and also to
enable a beginning to be made on a large scale with 'Serum Simultaneous' inocula-
tions against rinderpest, and it is therefore hoped that the second Superintendent,
already sanctioned, will arrive during the ensuing cold weather
Government have recognized the necessity for recruiting a third Superintendent
in the cold weather of 1920-21, if possible, and have addressed the Government of
India in the matter.
F. WARE,
Supt., Civil Vety. Dept., Madras.