No. 2022, REVENUE, 4TH SEPTEMBER 1915.
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Out of 1,746 inoculations performed against this disease 1,426 were carried out
in Nellore by Veterinary Inspector Kailasam Ayyar and the Touring Veterinary
Assistant, Srinivasa Rao. The results are reported to have been excellent and the
people very pleased with them.
Black quarter.—As will be seen from table XV there was a considerable drop
in the number of deaths reported from this disease compared with the previous year,
but Kurnool, Anantapur, Guntūr, Nellore and Tanjore appear to have had many out
breaks. The progress with Blacklegoid inoculation against this disease is very slow,
only 40 animals having been done throughout the year.
Foot-and-mouth disease. —A very large increase is noticeable under this head,
the figures being 4,646 against 1,695 the previous year. Ganjām, Malabar and
Coimbatore return the highest mortality and the disease was undoubtedly very
prevalent in the last two mentioned districts.
Fowl cholera.—This disease caused great havoc amongst poultry in Tinnevelly
and Palamcottah, the percentage of fatalities being very high.
(ii) Other diseases.—The total number of cases treated on tour by the subordi
nate staff shows a very marked increase, the figures being 21,483 against 12,264 in
1913-14. The number of castrations performed by the same agency was 4,342
against 4,436 the previous year, but the number of castrations performed at hospitals
rose from 461 to 656, making a total of 4,998.
In table IV in this year's report the figures for each district are shown sepa
rately. From this it will be observed how greatly the number of non-contagious
cases treated varies in different districts. The figures from Bellary and Malabar
are particularly poor and the reason for this must be ascribed, at least to some extent,
to the assistants in charge.
(iii) Hospitals and dispensaries.—.During the year under report hospitals were
opened at Cuddalore and Calicut in new buildings, and at Coonoor in a rented
building; a dispensary was opened at Guntūr, and three minor dispensaries at
Ranipet, Adōni and Srīvilliputtūr. The dispensary at Ellore, which previously had
been accommodated in a rented building in the bazaar, was converted into a hospital
and moved into the new buildings erected for it. Cocanada hospital also moved from
temporary into new buildings during the year. With the exception of Trichinopoly,
Pithāpuram and Tiruvannāmalai all the institutions show an increase of work and
most of the new ones have begun very well.
Tinnevelly has done particularly well and for this Veterinary Assistant
T. P. Swaminatha Ayyar deserves credit. It is to be hoped that the erection of the
new hospital buildings for this dispensary will not be delayed much longer.
The decrease at Trichinopoly was anticipated in last year's report. As stated
then all cases arrested by the Inspectors of the S.P.C.A. used to be admitted as
patients at the hospital, whether their owners were convicted of cruelty or not. This
has been rightly discontinued, but now even the convicted cases are not sent for
treatment to the hospital by the magistrate, who is able to do so. It would be to
the advantange of all concerned, especially the animals, if this procedure were
adopted in all towns where both a branch of the S.P.C.A. and a veterinary hospital
exist.
During the year Government sanctioned the addition of an operation shed to the
list of indispensable buildings for a veterinary hospital. When copies of the new
type design recently prepared by the Sanitary Engineer to Government are received
steps will be taken to add this building to those hospitals not already possessing it.
At present an operation shed exists in the hospitals at Coimbatore, Parlākimedi,
Bellary, Vizianagram, Pithāpuram, Madura, Vellore, Tanjore and Trichinopoly, while
temporary structures have been erected at Rajahmundry, Coonoor, Tinnevelly and
Vizagapatam.
Cattle Quarantine depot, Tuticorin.—During the year 13,423 cattle and 82,601
sheep and goats were passed for shipment to Colombo as compared with 19,100
and 135, 414 respectively the previous year. There was a daily shipment of animals
before the outbreak of the war, but for some time afterwards the service was very
irregular, and now only two shipments a week are made.
No animals were passed between 25th November and 15th December owing to
an outbreak of anthrax in the depot, which had been moved to a new site at the
beginning of the year. The depot was therefore again moved in January, as a