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three Government Stallions and Bulls NOS. 3, 5,14,20 and 21. In addition he visited
Mangalore and Nandyal in connection with the selection of sites for the hospitals
proposed to be opened at those places, attended the Cattle Show at Ongole and
served as a member of the Board of Examiners, which sat at the Madras Veterinary
College in December.
Mr. Kerr was in camp for 82 days and covered 3,954 miles by rail and 416 miles
by road. The hospitals at Coimbatore, Trichinopoly, Tanjore, Tinnevelly, Madura,
Sivaganga, Sivagiri, Ongole and Saidapet as well as the serum stored at Guindy,
and the Cattle Quarantine Depot, Tuticorin, were inspected by him. He selected
sites for the proposed hospitals at Mangalore, Madanapalle and Nandyal. He made
an extended tour in South Malabar and the Nilgiri-Wynaad inspecting the forest
elephants and the work of the Special Veterinary Inspector, as a result of which
he formulated proposals for strengthening the Veterinary Staff with the Forest
Department. A Veterinary Assistant on Rs. 50—5—75 has since been sanctioned by
Government to help the Special Veterinary Inspector. Mr. Kerr attended a meeting
of the Salem District Board when the proposal for establishing a Veterinary Hospital
at Salem was favourably reconsidered.
M.R.Ry. V. P. Subramania Mudaliar Avargal continued to hold the office of
Deputy Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, in which he was confirmed with
retrospective effect from 26th May 1911. He spent 154 days out of head-quarters,
covered 8,070 and 1,058 miles by rail and road respectively, visited all the districts
except Salem, inspected the hospitals at Madura and Saidapet twice and all the rest
with the exception of that at Parlākimedi once during the year. The Cattle
Quarantine Depot and the serum store at Guindy were also visited by him once. He
saw each of the three stallions twice and Government bulls Nos. 2,3, 10, 12, 21 and
23 and attended the Madura Cattle Show.
II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
(i) Contagious diseases.—The table below shows the results of the microscopical
examination of slides, most of which work was done in the Principal's office.
Twenty-five per cent, of the cases gave positive results:—
Serial
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Name of disease.
Anthrax
Hæmorrhagic Septioæmia
Black quarter ..
Piroplasmosis
Trypanosomiasis
Tetanus ..
Tuberoulosis
..
..
..
Strangles
Filariasis
Actinomycosis ..
Others
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Total..
Number of
specimens
examined.
53
27
49
48
7
1
6
6
1
3
26
227
Result.
Positive.
7
13
28
3
1
..
..
4
..
1
..
57
Negative.
46
14
21
45
6
1
6
2
1
2
26
170
This table excludes the specimens submitted for the examination of the Foot and
Mouth Disease Commissioners.
Glanders and Epizootic Lymphangitis.—No deaths were recorded under these
diseases.
Trypanosomiasis.—Nine deaths from surra are reported in the monthly cattle
mortality statements from districts. It is however not possible to place any reliance
on this figure, as the diagnosis of village officers in such cases cannot be depended
upon. Of the seven specimens examined microscopically under this head, six were sus
pected of surra but proved negative, while the one positive case was of Trypanosoma
Theileri in a bullock.
Rinderpest.—There is a decrease of over 4,000 in the number of: deaths reported
from rinderpest, as compared with the year 1911-12, and it is noteworthy that of
the 6,112 deaths reported during the year under review considerably over 2,000 of
them occurred in the districts of Kistna and Gōdāvari.