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RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT OF THE CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT, BURMA
position of the villages in these large areas and the lack of communications make
it probable that many more deaths occur than are actually reported. Anti-rinderpest
serum was employed in 305 outbreaks in 20 districts and out of the 28,380 animals
inoculated only 76 succumbed to attacks of this disease. In the Upper Chindwin
District which was responsible for 14,103 deaths out of 21,783 reported from
Upper Burma the number of animals inoculated was comparatively small. It is
evident that outbreaks of rinderpest in this district require special arrangements
by the Veterinary Department and the District authorities in collaboration and
the attention of the officers concerned will be drawn to this.
Revised rules were issued during the year under the Live-Stock
Importation Act, 1898, mainly to prevent the introduction of Bovine Tuberculosis.
A suitable site has, it is reported, been selected for a quarantine station in
Rangoon for the detention of imported animals subject to detention under these
rules.
4. Of the four Experimental Veterinary Dispensaries sanctioned in April
1921 at a cost not exceeding Rs. 2,500 per annum, three were opened at
Pakôkku, Prome and Myingyan. The fourth will shortly be opened at Toungoo
instead of at Pegu as originally approved. The attendance at these dispensaries
was as follows:—
Prome
...
Pakôkku ...
Myingyan
...
106 during six months from the date of opening.
291 during five months from the date of opening.
657 during six months from the date of opening.
In Akyab a dispensary was maintained at the cost of the Municipality but
only 131 animals were treated during the whole year. The Municipal Committee
has, however, decided to continue the experiment for another year.
The
success of the Myingyan Dispensary is distinctly encouraging and the Develop-
ment Commissioner is of opinion that with some re-arrangements of charges it
should be possible to provide a dispensary at each district headquarters without
increasing the strength of the veterinary staff. it will grest with the District
Councils who will have to bear the cost, to open such dispensaries.
5. The proposals for improving the existing stock of ponies in Burma referred
to in paragraph 4 of last year's resolution have resulted in the approval of a
scheme under which the services of the Superintendent of Stock Breeding are
being transferred to the control of the Director of Agriculture and pony and cattle
breeding on a small scale will be carried on at three Experimental Farms under
the immediate supervision of a Deputy Director of Agriculture who will be
responsible for the care and feeding of the animals. A scheme for a model
Dairy Farm and Cattle Breeding Establishment at the Mandalay Agricultural
Station framed by the Director of Agriculture in consultation with the Imperial
Dairy Expert has also been approved, and it is hoped that in the course of the
next few years the Province will possess a first-class dairy farm.
6. The establishment of District Councils is now approaching completion,
and the welfare of cattle is one of the matters for which they are responsible.
Future advances in combating cattle disease will rest largely in their hands. While
Veterinary Inspectors and Assistants will be paid, for the present at least,
from Provincial Revenues and may be transferred by the Veterinary Adviser