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Statement showing the receipts and charges of the Civil Veterinary Department of the
Province of Madras for the year 1920-21, final—cont.
Heads.
Charges.
Superintendence ... ... ... ... ... ...
Veterinary Instruction ... ... ... ... ...
Subordinate establishment ... ... ... ... ...
Establishment for the inspection of cattle for export to
Ceylon.
Breeding operations ... ... ... ... ... ...
Hospitals and dispensaries ... ... ... ... ...
Expenditure incurred on veterinary buildings ... ...
Original works ... ... ... ... ... ...
Repairs ... ... ... ... ... ...
Total ...
Amount under
Provincial.
RS.
A. P.
73,591 4 3
78,316 12 11
1,54,889 14 9
167 10 7
......
40,685 10 6
......
45,318 0 0
2,534 0 0
3,95,503 5 0
REMARKS —Local.—The figures under "Local " are not available at present as the local boards' accounts are not
received yet. The Examiner, Local Funds, may be addressed to furnish the figures after a month of the receipt of this
statement.
A. A. KUPPUSWAMI AYYANGAR,
Assistant Accounts Officer.
24th August 1921.
To the Under Secretary to Government, Development Department.
Order—No. 2174, Development, dated 23rd November 1921.
Recorded.
2. The superior staff of the department was strengthened during the year by the
addition of a second Superintendent who arrived in May 1920. An Imperial Leave
reserve officer was also posted to Madras in December 1920 and he has been deputed
to work at the college. A second officer for the college has since arrived while
sanction has been obtained for the employment of two more executive officers and a
third officer at the college. The number of Deputy Superintendents remained the
same as in 1919-20. The subordinate staff increased from 15 inspectors and 121
assistants on 31st March 1920 to 16 inspectors and 138 assistants on 31st March
1921.
3. Orders have been issued for the opening of new veterinary institutions at
Palacole, Manjeri, Puttur, Tiruppur, Kodaikānal, Chingleput and Masulipatam in
1921-22.
4. The year has been a comparatively healthy one for the cattle of the Presi
dency. The total number of deaths from contagious disease was 37,056 and is the
lowest on record for the last twenty years. There is a decrease under every disease.
Rinderpest which usually claims the largest toll accounts for 17,273 deaths as
compared with 31,237 in 1919-20, 44,164 in 1918-19 and 30,733 in the year
previous. Mortality from the disease was high in Anantapur, Ganjām and Kistna
districts while Chingleput, South Arcot and North Arcot come next in order.
Ganjām suffered heavily and the attention of the Collector of the district is invited
to paragraph 20 of the report of the Superintendent and he is requested to instruct
his revenue subordinates to supervise more effectively the work of the village
officers in the matter of reporting outbreaks. It is regrettable to find that in most
districts village officers are still far from prompt about sending reports of outbreaks.
It is reported that only eleven municipalities have thus far adopted by-laws
proposed in connexion with the maintenance of cattle mortality registers and the
sending of reports of outbreaks of diseases to the Veterinary department and that a
scheme for the maintenance of mortality registers and report of outbreaks by the
Madras Corporation with reference to paragraph 5 of G.O. No. 2946, Revenue, dated
10th December 1920, is still under discussion. It is a matter for regret that the
local bodies should have evinced so little interest in a matter closely affecting the
public health and the Government trust that earnest endeavours will soon be made to
give effect to the arrangements already proposed in this regard.