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department for attendance. The Madras Corporation decided to direct its Sanitary
Inspectors to report cases of contagious disease occurring amongst horses and cattle,
but the adoption of the aforesaid by laws, which seems to be the most important
step to take if any advance is to be made, was not considered necessary.
40. As regards Meat Inspection, two more municipalities, viz., Nuzvid and
Kodaikanal, decided during the year under report to avail themselves of the services
of a member of this department for this work, but Tanjore municipality took it away
from the Veterinary Assistant who previously did it.
47. Fairs and Shows.—The Cattle and Pony Show was held at Tiruppur during
1921, but the once famous Ongole Cattle Show does not appear to have been held since
February 1918.
48. The Cattle Disease Act, which is much easier to work since its amendment,
was put in force at all the important cattle fairs and throughout the Nilgiri district
during the year.
V.—EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
49. The total provincial expenditure of the department, excluding the Madras
Veterinary College, rose from Rs. 2,62,000-6-11 in the previous year to Rs. 2,86,979-
14-2 during the year under report.
VI.—OFFICE STAFF.
50. As far as one's memory goes, the work of this office has never been so
inefficient as during the latter half of the past year, but it. is only fair to add that
several of the senior clerks, including the Manager, were often on long leave at the
sumo time, and that when the new Superintendent's Division was opened at Vizaga-
patam in January 1922 the clerical staff of this office was reduced by two, and
Dorai8wamy Ayyar, another senior clerk of this office, had to be sent to act as Head
Clerk in the Vizagapatam office until the end of the official year.
VII.—GENERAL REMARKS.
51. Table XV shows a further decrease in the number of deaths reported amongst
animals in the past year compared with the figures of the years immediately prece-
ding. It is reasonable to suppose that a still greater reduction might have been
effected if all outbreaks of contagious disease had been reported promptly to this
department, for in 241. cases the staff had to complain against village officers for not
doing so
52. Owing to the agrarian trouble in Guntur district it was decided to
discontinue for the present the policy of establishing cattle pounds on the routes of
cattle returning from grazing in Hyderabad State.
53. Civil Veterinary Department Leaflet No. 5 on Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia
was distributed during the year, and one on Anthrax was in process of compilation.
51. There are now seven posts on the Imperial Cadre of the Civil Veterinary
Department allotted to Madras and six of them are already filled.
55. It has always been the opinion of the writer that when this department
reached its present size and importance, if not before, it would be necessary to appoint
a Director and one of the seven posts mentioned was asked for on those grounds.
A single Head is considered necessary in every other Government department
in order to co-ordinate the work of its educational institutions with the executive
branch, and also to see that the work of the whole department is divided up amongst
the officers available to the best advantage of the public.
In addition it is submitted that in fairness to the whole staff the proper
organization of this department deserves the consideration of Government at an early
date.
F. WARE,
Chief Supt., Civil Vety. Dept., Madras.