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P. S. Kuppuswami, L. S. Parameswara Ayyar, M. A. Rangaswamy Ayyar, B. Rama-
linga Nayudu, S. Ramaswamy, R. Swaminathan, K. Sukumara Rao, J. E. D. Sigamony
and K. Samirasimha Rao. A. S. Mahadeva Ayyar also deserves commendation
for sticking to his post at Manjeri during the Moplah rebcllion.
(ii) Itinerating.
14. Thirteen new touring billets were created during the year—11 in the plains
and 2 in the Agency division.
15. A comparison of the work done during the past two years is shown in the
following table:—
Year.
1920-21
1921-22
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..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Inoculations.
68,686
70,815
Contagious
cases treated.
13,405
18,119
Non-contagious
cases treated.
21,153
24,718
Castrations.
6,319
6,809
16. The names of the following touring assistants are brought to the notice of
Government for good work :—
T. L. Anantharaman, J. D. David, A. Krishnaswamy, Noor Ahmed,
V. Parameswara Menon, V. Periaswamy, K. Prakasa Rao, K. S. Ramaswamy,
H. R. Rangaswami, K. A. Ramaswamy Ayyar, A. Ramasubbu, T. K. Srinivasan,
A. Sundara Rao Nayudu and P. A. Vaidyanatha Ayyar.
III.—CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
17. Although there was an increase in the number of deaths reported during the
year from Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia, Black-quarter and Foot-and-mouth disease, yet
the reported total mortality from contagious diseases dropped from 37,066 in the
previous year to 34,258 during the year under report.
It is satisfactory to find that the largest decreases in the figures occurred
under Rinderpest and Anthrax.
18. Rinderpest.—The reported mortality under this head was 10,121, which for
this Presidency is a very small figure. The disease was severe only in Ganjām and
Kistna districts and in the Agency Division.
Altogether 810 reports of this disease were received, and 763 of them were
attended by the staff of this department. "Serum alone" inoculation was undertaken
during the course of 130 outbreaks, 61,391 animals being protected by this method.
Inoculation by the "Serum Simultaneous" method was revived during the year under
report, 83 cattle at the Coimbatore Agricultural Farm and 70 at the Chintaldevi
Farm being put through this process without any fatalities.
19. Mr. McElligott arranged to carry out inoculations by this method on private
animals at two places in Godavari district during February and March 1922, and, in
order to save expense, arrangements were made to get the necessary Rinderpest virus
down from the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory at Bareilly by post. Unfortu
nately, although two attempts were made, the virus was impotent when it arrival in
Godavari, probably owing to the fact that it was impossible to keep it packed in ice
throughout the journey, so the animals numbering some hundreds which had been
collected for the inoculations had to be dispersed.
20. These unsuccessful attempts to obtain the virus seriously jeopardised the
success of the three camps which had been arranged for private animals in the
Nilgiris during April and May of this year, for it was intended to carry on the virus
from one place to the other, but at the last moment a natural outbreak of Rinderpest
occurred at Kotagiri, and suitable virus, i.e., free from the organisms of Piroplasmosis
or Tick Fever, was obtained from it, and the inoculations in the Nilgiris successfully
carried through.
Details of these inoculations will be included in the report relating to the current
year, and they are only referred to here in order to show the urgent necessity there
is for a laboratory in the South of India from which suitable Rinderpest virus can be
obtained quickly and inexpensively, if these simultaneous inoculations are to supersede
the "Serum alone" method, the drawbacks of which are admitted.