VETERINARY SCHOOL), BURMA, FOR THE YEAR ENDED THE 31ST MARCH
1918.
3
wherever waste or unoccupied lands exist. I have every reason for thinking the
Indians lost a very large number of their ill-conditioned stock.
In addition to the District Staff of one Inspector and four Assistants, there
were two Inspectors and eleven Veterinary Assistants employed on special duty.
In the Insein District up to the end of the year 8,464 injections were
performed.
Every effort was made to prevent disease being carried to neighbouring
districts and all officials concerned were warned, as also the railway authorities,
etc. Owing to the proximity of Reserve Forest in Taikkyi Township, disease got
through to Okkan, and later was carried to Ngapyugale in Tharrawaddy District.
It was also carried via Wachaung and Hpaunggyi into parts of Hlègu. The
energetic measures promptly taken helped to check the spread.
Anthrax.—This
disease was not very prevalent. Akyab recorded just over
500 deaths. Disease was most severe during the first quarter of the year in the
Myohaung Township, where 334 deaths were recorded. Five villages in the
Launglôn Township of the Tavoy District lost some cattle. It is reported that
disease was imported from Mudu village in Yebyu Township, owing to villagers
throwing carcases of animals dead of the disease into the river.
Foot-and-mouth
Disease.—Mild
outbreaks were reported from Bassein,
Myaungmya, Akyab, Tavoy and Thatôn Districts. The highest mortality recorded
was 254 for the year from the Bassein District. Of these 125 deaths occurred
in the Ngaputaw and 48 in the Ngathainggyaung Township. In the Minbya
Township of the Akyab District, there was a sharp outbreak in June, and 115
animals are reported to have died.
In the Myaungmya District the disease prevailed in the Einmè, Mawlamyaing-
gyun and Wakèma Townships.
In the Tavoy District, disease occurred in the Launglôn Township.
Veterinary
Inspectors, 7.—Akyab 1, Insein 1, Prome 1, Bassein 1, Ma.ubin
1, Moulmein 1, and Thatôn 1.
Special duty, 1.—Pegu Division 1.
Veterinary Assistants, 85.—Arakan Division 11, Pegu Division 23, Irrawaddy
Division 23, Tenasserim Division 17, Reserve 8, Rangoon 2, Insein School 1.
Special duty, 13.—Pegu Division 11, Tenasserim Division 2.
Upper Burma.
Table II
4. With the exception of the Bhamo District, where over a thousand deaths
from rinderpest were reported, Upper Burma may be said to have enjoyed
practical immunity from contagious cattle disease.
In the Bhamo District rinderpest prevailed in all three subdivisions from
April to July, the losses being: Shwegu 64, Bhamo 424, and Sinlumkaba 128.
The Deputy Commissioner reports that "the Mosit headman failed to report the
outbreak in his village and neglected to take precautionary measures, and the
result was that a heavy toll was taken from the neighbouring villages and from
timber camps." In another instance "the headman of Yebyangale, in Shwegu
Subdivision, took his buffaloes from the infected area to his village where there
was no disease. Fortunately the Veterinary Assistant promptly segregated the
animals."
In the former instance the headman was removed and the villagers con-
cerned were fined; in the latter the headman was fined.
Veterinary
Inspectors,8.—Mandalay
1, Katha 1, Magwe 1, Mônywa 1,
Sagaing 1, Meiktila 1, Yamèthin 1, and Myingyan 1.
special duty.—Nil.
Veterinary Assistants, 72.—Magwe Division 15, Mandalay Division 20,
Sagaing Division 16, Meiktila Division 14, and Reserve 7.
Special duty, 4.—Mandalay Division 4.
Shan States.
5. Southern Shan States.—There
was no widespread outbreak of any disease.
Rinderpest persisted in some of the North-Eastern States, but the losses were
far less than in preceding year. Generally speaking the health of stock was
unusually good.