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4. Mr. T. J. Hurley, who arrived from England on 6th April 1922, was under
training in the head office until 28th March 1923. when he took charge of the office
of Superintendent, 1 Division, Vizagapatam.
He was on tour for 47 days, travelling 3,594 miles by rail and 232 by road.
From July to December 1922 he was attached to the Madras Veterinary College to
help with the post-graduate class and acted as an Examiner at the end of it, and
daring January and March 1923 he conducted serum simultaneous inoculations at
Coimbatore and in the Nilgiris.
(b) Provincial Officers.
5. Mr. H. C. Sampath Ayyangar held charge of the II Circle, Bellary, through-
out the year and spent 159 days on tour.
The investigation by the Muktesar Laboratory of the peculiar form of pleuro-
pneumonia prevalent amongst sheep at the Bantanahal and Hagari Farms was
continued with his aid.
6. Mr. R. Narasinga Rao was in charge of the I Circle, Vizagapatam,
throughout the year except for a period of three months from 14th August 1922,
when Mr. W. J. D'Costa acted for him.
In addition, he held charge of the office of Superintendent, I Division, from the
beginning of the year until 8th July 1922, when Mr. Saunders arrived to take
charge. Mr. Narasinga Rao toured for 102 days and Mr. D'Costa for 39 days in the
I Circle during the year.
7. Mr. K. Kailasam Ayyar held charge of the IV Circle, Coimbatore, during
the whole year and spent 168 days in camp. He attended the cattle and pony
Show at Tiruppur and served as an Examiner in Animal Hygiene at the Diploma
Examination of the Coimbatore Agricultural College.
S. Mr. A. J. Wilson was in charge of the III Circle, Madras, throughout the
year and was on tour for 143 days. He continued also to act as Editor of the
Madras Veterinary Journal.
II.—EXECUTIVE STAFF.
9. The strength of the executive staff on 31st March 1923 was 18 Veterinary
Inspectors, excluding the one lent to the Madras Corporation, and 172 Veterinary
Assistants, as compared with 17 Veterinary Inspectors and 161 Veterinary
Assistants of the previous year.
Thirteen new graduates were entertained during the year, including K. Achuta
Menon, a late Deputy Ranger of the Forest Department, who has been taken on the
cadre of this department only for the purposes of employment as a Veterinary
Inspector in the Forest Department. In addition Government gave employment
from 1st April 1922 to A. Venkatasubba Rao., who had worked as a Veterinary
Assistant under the Godavari District Board for thirteen years, and S. N. Tammayya
was re-transferred to this department from the Coorg Veterinary Department on
14th June 1922 at his own request. Three men, viz., Veterinary Inspector
Ayyaswami Pillai and Veterinary Assistants K. S. Sitaraman and S. Ramanathan
died during the year.
(a) Veterinary Inspectors.
10. As in the previous year thirteen Inspectors were in charge of Ranges.
One was employed under the Glanders and Farcy Act in Madras City, and one at the
Coimbatore Agricultural College. In addition three were employed as Lecturers at
the Madras Veterinary College.
The work of the Range Inspectors was uniformly satisfactory.
(b) Veterinary Assistants.
11. The sanctioned cadre was 181, but these were not all filled with a view of
effecting some economy in the expenditure of the department.
Table VII shows how the 172 Assistants on the rolls were employed, 60
being in charge of hospitals and dispensaries, 70 on itinerating duty and 28 on the
leave reserve.