No. 2022, REVENUE , 4TH SEPTEMBER 1915.
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APPENDIX.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, CIVIL VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT, MADRAS.
I.—GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.
Mr. Ware held charge of the office of Superintendent throughout the year.
He spent 151 days on tour within the Presidency, during which time he travelled
10,012 miles by rail and 596 miles by road.
From 14th September to 16th October 1914 he was touring on special duty
outside the Presidency in connection with the purchase of horses for the Madras War
Fund.
During the year he inspected all the hospitals and dispensaries in his charge
except those at Calicut, Ranipet and Srīvilliputtūr, which were newly opened
towards the end of the year.
The Cattle Quarantine depot at Tuticorin was inspected three times and the
Mobile Corps in Nellore district twice. He also inspected the Government elephants
at Teppakadu in the Nilgiris and Russellkonda in Ganjām district, the three Govern
ment stallions, and bulls Nos. 1, 2, 13 and 16. He attended the cattle shows held
at Madura, Tiruppur and Ongole and visited Ootacamund, Srīvilliputtūr, Negapatam,
Guntūr and Nandyal in connection with the selection of sites for the hospitals or
dispensaries to be opened at those places. The touring veterinary assistants of all
the districts in the Presidency were inspected by him during the year except those
in Chittoor, Anantapur and Cuddapah, and Bhadrāchallam division.
He also served as a member of the Board of Examiners at the professional
examinations of the Madras Veterinary College.
M.R. Ry. V. P. Subrahmanya Mudaliyar Avargal continued to hold the office of
Deputy Superintendent during the year except for two months from 11th May 1914,
when he was on privilege leave.
No substitute was appointed to act for him during this time.
He spent 137 days out of headquarters, covered 6,624 miles by rail and 966 by
road. He inspected the hospitals and dispensaries at Tinnevelly, Bellary, Coimbatore
(twice), Trichinopoly, Tanjore, Ellore, Vizianagram, Vizagapatam, Pithāpuram,
Cocanada, Rajahmundry, Calicut, Tiruvannāmalai, Vellore, Guntūr and Ranipet, and
most of the touring veterinary assistants in the Presidency.
He also visited Kunavaram and Negapatam in connection with the selection of
sites for the minor dispensaries to be opened in those places, and inspected the Cattle
Quarantine depot at Tuticorin, the three Government stallions twice each, bulls
Nos. 3 and 16, and the work of the Mobile Corps twice.
II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
(i) Contagious diseases.—Sixty-eight thousand and twenty-five deaths amongst
cattle were reported against 50,728 the previous year.
A glance at table XV will show that rinderpest was responsible almost entirely
for this increase.
Three hundred and twenty-six smears and specimens were submitted by the sub
ordinate staff for microscopical examination at the Madras Veterinary College. The
number is increasing only slowly owing to the difficulty experienced in getting men
sufficiently interested in their work to take the trouble to submit specimens from
every case requiring confirmation which comes to their notice.
Veterinary Assistant S. S. Tītarappa Mudaliyar submitted 59 specimens
during the year, while the next highest number is only 22.
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