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REPORT ON THE CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT (INCLUDING THE INSEIN
The behaviour of the pupils during the year was all that could be desired.
At the close of the year there were 45 pupils, viz. Class C 18, Class B 16 and Class
A 11.
During the year Veterinary Inspector Maung Tun Aung, who had been
kept on to assist the teaching staff, was sent to Toungoo District together with
three pupils to assist in inoculation operations and help in suppressing outbreaks of
rinderpest.
He was also promoted to first grade Veterinary Inspector, and was
later, in December, posted to Sagaing District. Maung Tun Aung is an excep-
tionally good Inspector; keen, reliable and a real hard worker. I intend submit-
ting his name for promotion.
During the year, one Veterinary Inspector and four senior Veterinary
Assistants who were acting as Inspectors were called in, the former to undergo
training as Deputy Superintendent and the latter as Inspectors.
In May six Shan passed pupils from Taunggyi and one Shan Veterinary
Assistant from Yawnghwe with the consent of the Superintendent and Political
Officer were sent down for a course of practical training and were sent back in
July. They were also fortunate in having had an opportunity of seeing anti-
rinderpest serum injections done in the Insein District.
During the year 1,755 cases were treated in the hospital as out-patients,
and 179 as in-patients ; the average daily attendance being 2203. The slight
decrease, 41, in the number of out-patients treated is due to the falling off in
the number of smaller animals ; on the other hand, there was an increase of over
100 cases amongst cattle, and we desire such cases.
Six suspected cases of rabies were brought to the hospital, four in dogs
and two amongst cattle. In two cases one dog and one calf, the result was positive.
In other cases the owners were warned and the animals were never seen again.
Five cases of surra were diagnosed including one calf and one dog. The
disease was said to be very prevalent in and around Insein, Thamaing and Kama-
yut. Some 45 ponies belonging to hackney gharry owners in Insein are said to have
died. Three ponies kept for instructional purposes at the school were attacked
and were destroyed. One pony of the Military Police, Rangoon, under treat-
ment in the hospital was also attacked and had to be destroyed.
Cases of rinderpest, foot-and-mouth, streptotrichosis, parasitic skin diseases,
distemper and fowl cholera were also brought to the hospital for treatment.
The total number of slides examined at the laboratory was 5,562. Of these,
4,442 were received from the districts.
The following diseases were detected at the laboratory :—
Trypanosomiasis ...
Anthrax ...
Haemorrhagic Septicaemia
Filariasis ...
Piroplasmosis ...
90
41
22
19
12
Demodex Folliculorum ...
Strangles
Epizootic Lymphangitis ...
Sarcoptic Mange ...
12
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II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
(1) CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Lower Burma.
Table II.
3. Rinderpest.—The
losses for rinderpest in the year under review are the
highest recorded since 1905-06, and in Lower Burma the total number of deaths
(40,744) from the disease has only been equalled or exceeded on four previous
occasions during the last thirty years.
The Irrawaddy Division has suffered most; more than half the total deaths
falling to its share. In the previous year the disease may be said to have been
confined more or less to the Pegu Division. During this year, in the districts of the
Irrawaddy Division, disease spread with alarming rapidity. Ma-ubin District
suffered the highest mortality it has done since its existence as a district, deaths
amounting to 6,932. In the words of the Deputy Commissioner " it was a
catastrophe to the cultivators, for the loss of cattle last year was a record, and