FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH 1910.
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In the Tharrawaddy District the Tharrawaddy and Mônyo Townships suffered
most, there being 289 and 273 deaths respectively. The outbreak in Tharrawaddy
District in May was suppressed by end of July. Serum injection was carried out
in Lwinbyin, where disease was severe. Towards the end of the year arrangements
were made to carry out serum injection at Singaung in Ôkpho Township, but on
arrival at the scene the owners were not keen on it. The outbreaks in Prome
District were generally not of a severe type and occurred in various parts of the
district. Disease was more or less prevalent throughout the year.
Anthrax caused very little trouble.
Foot-and-mouth disease was generally prevalent throughout the division, and
was especially so in the Pegu and Hanthawaddy Districts, particularly in the
Hlègu and Kawa Townships of the former and Taikkyi and Kyauktan in the latter.
I saw numerous cases in the rains some of which, owing to the season, were severe.
Veterinary Inspectors, 2.
Special duty, Nil.
Veterinary Assistants, 22—Pegu 4, Hanthawaddy 5, Prome 3, Tharrawaddy
4, Rangoon Town 6 (2 Headquarters, 3 Reserve, 1 in School).
Special duty, Nil.
Number of outbreaks attended, 602.
Total mortality from contagious diseases, 4,888.
Table II.
5. Irrawaday Division.—Bassem,
Henzada, Ma-ubin, Myaungmya, Pyapôn
and (for convenience) Thayetmyo.
The Thayetmyo and Henzada Districts were the only ones in which rinder-
pest caused serious losses. In the former district the Myedè Subdivision suffered
rather severely during the first few months of the year in which period the follow-
ing mortality was recorded : Thambulla 427, Pyalo 422, Allanmyo 442. In the two
last-named circles the disease died out during August, but in the former there was a
slight recrudescence of disease in January which, however, soon subsided. Serum
injection was carried out on two occasions in the Minhla and Thayetmyo Townships.
In the Henzada District disease appeared in January in the Lemyèthna Town-
ship and was prevalent at the close of the year. Five hundred and sixty-four
deaths were recorded up to the end of March. Some few years ago the cattle
owners in this township suffered severe losses from this disease.
Anthrax was chiefly confined to three townships in the division : Kanaung
(Henzada) 426, Ngathainggyaung (Bassein) 287, and Kyaunggôn (Bassein)
140 deaths. The only outbreak of a severe nature was reported from Ngathaing-
gyaung in September, when 99 animals succumbed to the disease.
An outbreak of hæmorrhagic septicæmia occurred at Samalauk (Ma-ubin).
It broke out amongst cattle brought there by native dealers from the Pegu District.
Foot-and-mouth disease was fairly prevalent in several of the districts of the
division. A good many deaths were reported to have occurred in Henzada,
Bassein and Thayetmyo Districts, which suffered most.
Veterinary Inspectors, 2.
Special duty, Nil.
Veterinary Assistants, 24—Bassein 6, Ma-ubin 3, Henzada 5, Pyap6n 3,
Myaungmya 4 and Thayetmyo 3.
Special duty, Nil.
Outbreaks attended, 774.
Total mortality from contagious diseases, 7,400.
Table II.
6. Tenasserim Division.—Amherst, Tavoy, Mergui, Thatôn, Toungoo and
Salween.
Rinderpest was prevalent in the Amherst and Toungoo Districts.
In Amherst the disease was most severe in the Kawkareik and Kyaikmaraw
Townships, where it is said to have been introduced from Siam. In the former town-
ship the disease was most severe during the first half of the year, only 38 deaths
being reported during the remaining half. Total mortality in this township is
1,175. In the Kyaikmaraw Township the disease prevailed during the same period
but lingered on particularly in the Natchaung Circle up till February. In this
township 1,172 deaths were recorded. In Toungoo there were mild outbreaks
in several townships. The mortality was not high.