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appeared after the inoculations with serum. He further expressed himself in
the following words : " A great number of people now of the same and some
other villages are willing to have their cattle inoculated."
(iii) A third tour to Orai, North-Western Provinces, between the 8th and
16th July, but the disease was found to have abated on the officiating Imperial
Bacteriologist's arrival.
(iv) During the latter half of July, Captain Rogers proceeded to Pithora¬
garh, at the request of the missionaries resident in that locality, in order to
inoculate their cattle with protective rinderpest serum. Advantage was taken
at the same time of testing the serum method on hill cattle, as an outbreak
occurred in the vicinity during his halt.
Result.—In one village, 80 miles from the Laboratory, possessed of 58 head
of cattle, 8, which were said to be immune from a previous attack, survived. In
the next village, two miles distant, where the disease had only been present for
three weeks, only 10 animals remained out of 365. Eighteen hill animals,
including one with symptoms of rinderpest, were subjected to inoculation by
the simultaneous method with 20 c. c. serum per 600 lbs. body weight and
0.5 c. c. virulent blood ; the animal above mentioned died next day, but all
the remaining 17 were reported as being quite healthy months afterwards.
(v) On the 3rd August 1899, sanction of the Government of India was
accorded to a trial of a Fungus imported from South Africa in June 1899, for
destroying locusts. The officiating Imperial Bacteriologist visited Muzaffer¬
nagar, on hearing by an urgent message the coming of locusts in that locality,
to himself start the use of the fungus. On examination, the reported locusts
were found to be of small size, and were not thought to be the true locust.
Much damage, however, had been done by them to the sugarcane crops in the
districts.
(vi) For the sixth tour, made between 9th and 24th August, the Assistant
to the Inspector General, Civil Veterinary Department, was detailed to accom-
pany the officiating Imperial Bacteriologist; as by G. O. No. 1325—102-1,
his free hand of visiting the seat of rinderpest outbreaks for inoculation
purposes was withdrawn, on the ground of doubtful or unsuccessful experiments
being apt to make villagers distrustful and unwilling to furnish subjects for
treatment.
The above officers appear to have travelled long distances in the Hills,
without coming across any cases of rinderpest, and returned to head-quarters
with the serum which they took with them.
(vii) The seventh tour was made in company with the Assistant to Inspec-
tor General, Civil Veterinary Department, between the 3rd and 12th September.
Udiabag (Saharanpur district), Nagina and Bijnor district villages were visited,
and in the former locality serum inoculations were conducted.
On two subsequent occasions, the Assistant to the Inspector General,
Civil Veterinary Department, inoculated the cattle at Udiabag and neigh-
bouring villages with the serum sent from the Laboratory, and he will notice
the excellent results obtained in his Annual Report to Government.
(viii) On January 28th, I proceeded to Bareilly to interview the Collector
of the district and obtain sanction for the supply to the Laboratory of certain
material from the Municipal slaughter house of that city; the request was
willingly acceded to and the material obtained.
(ix) On the urgent representation of the Director, Army Remount
Department, I proceeded, on February 24th, to the Remount Depôts situated
respectively at Karnal (Punjab) and Hapur (North-Western Provinces), in
order to investigate serious outbreaks of disease amongst the horses and mules,
which presented many of the symptoms of Glanders-Farcy. As a preliminary
report has been already forwarded to Government with regard to the results
of the investigation as far as the researches will allow of, and as a full report
will be submitted later when further opportunities have been taken advantage
of for making post-mortems on advanced cases of the disease and the intimate
Etiology of the malady has been worked out. A resumé only of the most
interesting circumstances connected with these outbreaks have been furnished
for this report in paragraph 17 (i).