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TABLE XII.
Showing average cost of feed, keep, attendance, etc., of Horse, Pony and Donkey Stallions
during the year 1915-16.
Province.
1
HORSE.
Year under
report.
2
Rs.
Previous
year.
3
Rs.
PONY.
Year under
report.
4
Rs.
Blank.
Previous
year.
5
Rs.
I
Donkey.
Year under
report.
6
Rs.
Previous
year.
7
Rs.
TABLE XIII.
Abstract of particulars regarding Horse Fairs and Shows held in non-selected districts during
the year 1915-16.
Province.
1
1. Bihta ... ...
2.
Barahpur
...
3. Khagra ...
4. Sonepur ...
6. Singheswarthan ...
0. Dharamganj ...
7. Hardi ... ...
8. Madhuban ...
9. Bettiah Dasahra ...
10. Chanderdehi ...
Total
Number
of Horse Fair and Shows held.
1
2
...
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
Total number of
animals present.
Year under report.
3
...
2,818
6,000
4,851
425
200
1,400
1,000
200
115
17,012
Previous year.
4
...
3,354
5,000
6,280
...
650
1,000
1,260
1,300
250
13,981
Total
number
competing
for prizes.
Year under report.
6
...
16
60
...
...
...
...
5
4
...
75
Previous year.
0
...
0
50
...
...
...
...
8
8
...
72
Total number |
of Horse
Stock (not
including
Branded
Mares)
present.
Belonging to breeders.
7
...
...
...
...
60
...
... ...
1,000
...
...
1,050
Belonging to dealers.
8
200
700
6,000
4,854
300
200
1,800
...
200
115
14,405
Total number of animals sold.
0
...
1,242
4,000
...
75
80
1,105
300
...
60
6,022
From Imperial Funds.
10
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
From Provincial Funds.
11
...
250
25
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
275
Prizes awarded.
From Local Funds,
12
...
500
50
...
......
...
...
...
...
...
550
From other sources.
13
...
12
70
...
...
...
...
...
21
...
100
Total.
14
...
| 7C2
151
...
...
...
...
...
21
...
934
Amount
actually
awarded.
15
...
15
151
...
...
...
...
......
21
...
187
Number of medals
awarded.
16
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Amount sanctioned by Government of
India.
17
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
TABLE
Abstract of Particulars regarding Cattle Fairs
Province.
1
1. Sitamarhi
...
2. Khagra ...
3. Chatra ...
4. Bihta ...
5. Sonepur ...
6. Barahpur ...
7. Dharamganj ...
S. Biswabhusanda
9. Loalong ...
10. Chanderdehi ...
11. Hardi ...
12. Madhuban
...
13. Bettiah Basahra
Total ...
Number
of Cattle Fairs and
Shows hold.
2
...
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
12
Bulls.
3
...
45
...
...
13
1
400
...
...
65
...
...
3
527
Bullocks.
4
...
4,000
3,700
7,000
30,000
20,£53
2,500
1,500
5,000
1,200
5,000
10,000
4,000
94,753
Number of stock present.
Cows.
5
...
150
3,000
200
1,570
494
5C0
500
1,200
70
...
100
...
7,7S4
Young stock.
6
...
800
...
500
376
6,188
800
100
...
150
...
1,000
13,000
22,914
Buffaloes.
7
...
3,000
4,090
100
750
791
4,000
600
3,000
80
...
...
...
17,181
Camels.
8
...
300
40
...
55
...
...
...
60
...
...
...
...
455
Others.
9
...
5,200
4,037
200
97
...
...
500
70
...
...
...
10,104
Bulls.
10
Rs.
39
...
...
70
to
125
100
25
...
...
20
...
...
80
...
Average price of
Bullocks.
11
Rs.
50
20
...
35
to
110
40
to
120
30
60
25
25
65
250
75
...
Cows.
12
Rs.
30
10
...
30
to
250
40
to
90
35
45
20
20
...
25
...
...
XIV.
and Shows held during the year 1915-16.
animal sold.
Buffaloes.
13
Rs.
...
40
30
...
80
to
225
50
to
90
40
50
25
40
...
...
Camels.
14
Rs.
...
60
15
...
...
...
...
...
...
30
...
...
...
...
Amount realized in fees.
15
...
20,000
...
...
...
...
1,288
1,638
...
...
800
200
...
23,920
Total number of animals that
competed for prizes.
16
....
100
...
...
...
...
21
...
5
...
...
10
21
157
From Imperial Funds.
17
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Prizes awarded.
From Provincia1
Funds.
18
...
100
...
...
...
...
250
...
...
...
...
...
350
From Local Funds.
19
...
150
...
...
...
...
500
190
...
...
...
...
840
From other sources.
20
...
196
...
...
...
...
12
200
...
...
...
...
84
492
Total.
21
...
416
...
...
...
...
762
390
...
...
...
...
S4
1,632
Number of medals awarded.
22
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Remarks.
23
Held in April 1916.
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TABLE XIV (A).
Statement showing the Expenditure of the Civil Veterinary Department during the year
1915-16 in the Province of Bihar and Orissa.
Heads of Account.
1
Superintendence ... ... ...
Veterinary Instruction ... ...
Subordinate Establishment ... ...
Hospitals and Dispensaries ... ...
Prizes
... ... ...
Fairs and Shows ... ... ...
Breeding Operations ... ...
Total ...
Imperial.
2
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Amount.
Provincial.
3
Rs.
80,719
900
8,590
24,575
...
...
—300
64,484
Local.
4
Rs.
...
3,504.
15,053
83,238
...
4,450
2,351
1,08,596
Total.
5
Rs.
30,719
4,404
23,643
1,07,813
...
4,450
2,051
1,73,080
TABLE XIV (B).
Showing the Expenditure incurred for the Ranchi Inoculation Scheme during the year 1915-16.
Detail of cost.
1
Establishment.
Cost of training of Inoculators ...
Cost of supervision ... ...
Pay of Inoculators ... ...
Total ...
Contingencies.
Kit boxes and accessories ... ...
Carriage of Serum and Vaccine ...
Coolie charges for Inoculators ... ...
Forms, postage, M. O. commn., etc. ...
Disinfectants ... ... ...
Ice ... ... ... ...
Rent of Serum Depôt ... ...
Total ...
Grand Total ...
Amount.
2
Rs. a. p.
45 0 6
2,793 8 8
2,596 10 8
5,435 3 10
167 15 0
693 4 6
461 13 0
162 5 6
63 8 0
60 0 0
60 0 0
1,668 14 0
7,104 1 10
Remarks.
3
Includes pay and allowances
of Inspectors of Inoculators
and peons.
B. & O. G. P. (Agri.) No. 37—375—26-8-1916.— W. R.
GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR AND ORISSA,
REVENUE DEPARTMENT.
No. 9104/Vety.-47 R.
RESOLUTION.
Dated Ranchi, the 17th September 1916.
READ—
The Annual Report of the Civil Veterinary Department in Bihar and Orissa for the year
1915-16, with a review thereon by the Director of Agriculture.
Mr. Quinlan was in charge of the Department throughout the year: he
spent 188 days on tour, visiting Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries, inspect-
ing the work of the Itinerant Veterinary Assistants and attending outbreaks of
cattle diseases.
The proposals recently submitted to the
Government
of India for the complete reorganization of the Department include two
additional Superintendents, as the superior staff urgently requires to be
supplemented in order to cope with the heavy tasks of supervision and preven-
tion of disease over so wide an area.
2. The subordinate staff of the Department was increased by two Inspec-
tors and two Veterinary Assistants, but thirteen sanctioned posts in the latter
rank still remained vacant. The proposals submitted to the Government of
India, based on the minimum requirements of the Province, contemplate a
gradual increase for some years in the number of Veterinary Assistants. The
rise, therefore, in the number of students from Bihar and Orissa admitted into
the Bengal Veterinary College from 11 to 27 is satisfactory.
Both the
Superintendent and the Director of Agriculture have alluded to the low
standard of education of the successful candidates for stipends, but this is a
natural consequence of the policy which has been adopted, and to which the
Lieutenant-Governor in Council attaches special importance, that recruitments
should, as far as possible, be made from the agricultural rather than the clerical
classes.
3. The Report indicates that though the improvement in the arrange-
ments for reporting outbreaks of cattle disease which was noticed in the Local
Government's Resolution on the report for the year 1914-15, was on the whole
well maintained, a large number of outbreaks still remain unreported, while
difficulty is constantly experienced in inducing owners to submit their animals
to preventive treatment. The Indian cultivator is notoriously conservative,
and religious prejudices in particular die hard, but there are welcome indica-
tions in certain areas of assistance from Co-operative Societies, and the Superin-
dent has brought to notice instances in which members have reported
outbreaks of their own accord or were instrumental in getting a large number
of animals inoculated
As Mr, Quinlan points out, the help which Co-opera-
tive Societies are willing to extend to the Veterinary Staff is an important
factor in the future development and success of the department.
4. As in previous years rinderpest and hæmorrhagic septicæmia were
mainly responsible for the reported mortality among cattle, claiming respectively
18,851 and 4,016 victims out of the provincial aggregate of 24,442. The
former disease was particularly virulent in the district of Puri, where the
reports of the previous three years had shown only a light, though increasing,
mortality.
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5. The fall in the number of cattle inoculated by the regular staff from
85,688 to 58,762 is a disappointing set back after the rapid progress achieved
in the preceding three years. The Superintendent ascribes the decrease partly
to the absence on leave on deputation of three experienced Inspectors but
mainly to the opposition experienced in the Bihar districts. Although the time
is not yet ripe for any measure of compulsory inoculation on the lines recom-
mended by Mr. Quinlan, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council is prepared to
consider any feasible scheme which the Director of Agriculture may put
forward to give effect to his alternative suggestion for checking the spread of
cattle disease by restrictions placed on the free movement of cattle from
infected areas.
The results of the important experiment in inoculation against rinder
pest and hæmorrhagic septicæmia in the Ranchi district by the agency
or locally trained inoculators are also discouraging, but the Lieutenant-
Governor in Council is not prepared to abandon the experiment without further
trial, and the Director of Agriculture has been asked to examine, in consulta-
tion with the local officers, the possibility of infusing fresh vitality into the
scheme.
6. The number of animals treated by Itinerant Veterinary Assistants on
tour rose from 53,613 in 1914-l5 to 54,904 during the year under review.
There was an increase from 20 to 23 in the number of hospitals for in-patients
open during the year.
7. The Government Cattle-breeding farm at Sipaya continues to make
satisfactory progress, and the strength of the herd now stands at 204 as against
the 51 animals with which it was started in 1914. The condition and general
health of the cattle are reported to have been good. The number of requisitions
for bulls is increasing, and it will be a long time before it will be possible to
comply with all the applications received.
8. The thanks of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council are due to Mr. Quinlan
for his efficient administration of the Department under his control.
ORDER.— Ordered that this Resolution be published in the Bihar and Orissa
Gazette and that a copy of it, together with a copy of the report, be submitted to
the Government of India.
H. K. BRISCOE,
Offg. Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa.
No. 9105/Vety.-47 R.
Memo. by—The Under-Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa, Revenue
Department.
Copy forwarded to the Director of Agriculture, Bihar and Orissa, for
information, with reference to his letter No. 6710/1R-20, dated the 26th July 1916.
By order, etc.,
(Sd.) S. N. RAY,
RANCHI,
The 7th September 1916.
Offg. Under-Secretary to the Government of
Bihar and Orissa
B. & O. G. P. (Rev.) No. 34—339 + 1—19-9-1916— G. W. A. P.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
BIHAR AND ORISSA
FOR THE YEAR
1916-17.
PATNA:
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BIHAR AND ORISSA.
1917.
[Price, Indian, 8 annas: English, 8d.]
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BOOK DEPÔT.
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Forwarded by the order of
HIS HONOUR
THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
IN COUNCIL.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
BIHAR AND ORISSA
FOR THE YEAR
1916-17.
SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING
BIHAR AND ORISSA.
1917.
[Price, Indian, 8 annas : English, 8d.]
Agents for the Sale of Books Published by the Bihar and Orissa Government.
Agents in India.
(1) Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta.
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(4) Messrs. A. M. & J. Ferguson, Ceylon.
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Calcutta.
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Fort, Post Box No. 18, Bombay.
(8) Messrs. M. C. Sircar & Sons, 75, Harrison Road, Calcutta.
(9) Proprietor of the Newal Kishore Press, Lucknow.
(10) Messrs. M. N. Burman & Co., Bankipur.
(11) Babu Ram Dayal Agarwala, 184, Katra Road, Allahabad.
(12) Standard Literature Co., Ltd., 13/1, Old Court House
Street, Calcutta.
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Bazar Street, Calcutta.
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Agents in England.
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Square, London, W. C.
(2) Messrs. Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 68, Carter
Lane, London, E. C. (Oriental Department) and 25
Museum Street, London, W. C.
(3) Mr. B. Quaritch, 11, Grafton Street, New Bond Street
London, W.
(4) Messrs. P. S. King & Son, 2 and 4, Great Smith Street,
Westminster, London, S. W.
(5) Mr. B. H. Blackwell, 50-51, Board Street, Oxford.
(6) Messrs. Deighton Bell & Co., Ltd., Trinity Street, Cambridge.
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London, E. C.
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Agents on the Continent:
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(2) Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Holland.
CONTENTS.
General Administration ... ... ... ...
Veterinary Instruction ... ... ... ...
Treatment of Diseases
...
...
...
...
Breeding Operations ... ... ... ...
Subordinate Establishment
...
...
...
...
Research Work ... ... ... ...
Appendices
...
...
...
...
PAGE
1
1
2—7
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
BIHAR AND ORISSA.
No. 5800.
FROM
G. MILNE, ESQ., I.C.S.,
DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, BIHAR AND ORISSA,
To
THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
BIHAR AND ORISSA ,
REVENUE DEPARTMENT.
Dated Ranchi, the 14/15th August 1917.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit the Annual Report of the Civil Veteri-
nary Department, Bihar and Orissa, for 1916-17. The report has been
delayed over a month owing to the absence of Mr. Quinlan on privilege leave.
Mr. Quinlan was in charge of the Department throughout the year and spent
285 days on tour, visiting Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries, inspecting the
field work of Veterinary Assistants and attending outbreaks of cattle-dieases.
2. At the request of the Principal, Police Training School, Bazaribagh,
a lecture on contagious cattle-diseases and the procedure for reporting them
was given to the candidates for Sub-Inspectorships, and it has been decided
that these lectures should, in future, form part of the regular curriculum. It
is hoped that the training received by the Sub-Inspectors will add to the
efficiency of the reporting agency in future.
3. Although local bodies offered a larger number of stipends and most of
them increased the value of the stipends, there was no great response to the
call for students for admission to the Bengal Veterinary College. During the
year under report only 17 boys from this province were admitted to the Bengal
Veterinary College of whom 14 are Beharis, 2 domiciled Bengalees and 1 Oriya,
against 27 of last year. There was no improvement either in the class of
students for admission. Of the five Government stipends for Chota Nagpur
and Oriya boys, two were held by two Chota Nagpuri boys in the second year
class and three remained vacant for want of suitable candidates either from
Chota Nagpur or Orissa. Out of 8 students from this Province five passed
the final examination of the Bengal Veterinary College.
4. The number of reported outbreaks of contagious diseases rose from 3,527
to 4,513, of which only 1,850 could be attended by the Veterinary staff. The
number of deaths from all contagious diseases was 26,107 against 24,459 of
last year. Rinderpest alone claimed 19,144 victims against 18,851 of the
previous year. This disease was prevalent in all the districts of the Province
and was particularly virulent in Shahabad, Darbhauga, Monghyr, Gaya, Palamau,
Hazaribagh, Purnea and Cuttack. Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia was responsible
for the death of 5,584 animals against 4,016 deaths of the previous year. It
caused considerable mortality in Gaya, Patna, Bhagalpur and Balasore. The
only district which was free from this disease was Champaran.
[Maximum Limit—8 pages.]
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
BIHAR AND ORISSA
FOR THE YEAR 1916-17.
PREFACE AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.
I held charge of the Department throughout the period covered by the
present report. More attention was given to inspection of the field work of
the Veterinary Assistants than in any previous year, lengthy periods being
spent in supervising the outbreaks of cattle-disease in Gaya, Darbhanga and
Shahabad districts. An outbreak of Glanders at Hazaribagh took up the
greater part of November; during December, the bulls distributed in Chain-
paran District to the planters from the Bettiah Cattle Farm, were inspected,
and while on ordinary inspection duty, visits were paid to the cattle farms
at Sepaya and Pusa. Permission was given me to go to the Allahabad Dairy
Farm in August. I attended Barahpur Fair in April, and acted as an
Examiner at the Annual Examinations of the Bengal Veterinary College, and
of the Agricultural College, Sabour, during March. At the request of the
Principal of the Police Training School, Hazaribagh, a lecture on contagious
cattle-diseases and the method of reporting them was given to the candidates
for Sub-Inspectorships; it is his intention that these lectures should form
part of the ordinary curriculum and be continued each year for the future.
No tours could be made in the Orissa Division, or in Ranchi District.
Altogether I spent 285 days away from head-quarters, travelling 9,355 miles
by rail and 3,151 miles by road.
PART I.
VETERINARY INSTRUCTION.
As in the previous year, the attention of the local bodies was drawn to the
necessity of providing stipends for students who were willing to proceed to
Belgachia for training ; as a result, 17 boys were admitted , of whom 11 were
Hindus and 6 Muhammadans ; of this number 14 were Biharis, while two
were domiciled Bengalis and one, an Oriya. Fifteen were stipend-holders and
two were private students. The Bettiah Estate gave one scholarship of Rs. 20
to a Muhammad an boy from the Estate. The general educational qualifications
of the candidates were about the same as last year, most of them having read
up to the Matriculation standard ; two only could produce a certificate of
having passed. The standard of education was exemplified in the number of
passes at the annual examinations, as out of 21 (including four plucked stu-
dents of the previous year), who appeared at the First Examination, only 14
were successful.
The four stipends granted by Government were held by the same boys as in
the previous year, two being in the third year and two in the second year
classes. One of them, S. Kenil, obtained his diploma and was posted to Khunti,
while another was removed from the College on the recommendation of the
Principal, as his progress was unsatisfactory. Although efforts were made by
District Boards and Missionaries in Chota Nagpur to fill the three vacant
Government scholarships, including one which was sanctioned for Oriyas,
no candidates with suitable qualifications could be selected. One Oriya boy
who had passed the Matriculation Examination, was recommended by the
Deputy Commissioner, Angul, but failed to join the College.
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TABLES XIII AND XIV.
These tables refer to the principal fairs and shows held in the province
during the past year. There was a greatly increased demand for cattle in
this Province; large numbers were exported to Bengal and Assam, the Bengal
and North-Western Railway transporting 32,792 animals, as compared with
22,880 in 1915-16. Prices in the case of bullocks and buffaloes remained
practically stationary, but there was a considerable advance in the case of
milch cows, owing to the numbers which are now required to meet the demands
of the Calcutta and other Bengal markets. This year I was able to visit
Barahpur Fair only, but the Circle Inspectors were present at Sonepur,
Bettiah, Khagra, Dharamganj, Singeswar and other fairs in their circles.
Temporary hospitals were erected and demonstrations given on the treatment
of foot-and-mouth disease and in the methods of inoculating against the
different contagious diseases.
Enquiries were made into the water-supply on the roads leading to the
Hiranpur market in the Santal Parganas, and as a result of the suggestions
made in the report, the Deputy Commissioner has allotted funds to provide
tanks and wells as cattle suffer severely during the hot weather months.
SUBORDINATE VETERINARY ESTABLISHMENT.
The strength of the subordinate staff of the Department for the year is
given in Table VII. No increase in the number of Inspectors took place.
One of the Senior Inspectors, Babu P. N. Das, remained on medical
leave up to the 16th of March when he resumed his work. Babu B. L. Sur,
Sirdar Sucha Singh and R. K. Ram performed their duties in suppressing
outbreaks of cattle-disease in their circles in a most satisfactory manner.
Babu S. C. Bose worked satisfactorily in his Circle. He was deputed to
Singhbhum during the months of May and June to make enquiries into
the hide trade in that District. The report submitted by him was
an interesting one and his work was commended by the Deputy
Commissioner. Babus S. N. Chattarji and D. N. Sarkar performed their
duties in a fairly satisfactory manner.
The Reserve Veterinary Assistants, Babus P. Panda and D. C. Guha
were in charge of the Inoculators in Ranchi and must be recommended for
their works.
The total number of Veterinary Assistants was increased to 74 by the
employment of 6 new graduates of the Bengal Veterinary College. One
Assistant died, two resigned and another was transferred to the United
Provinces, thus the total number at the end of the year was reduced to 70.
RESEARCH WORK.
Beyond the diagnosis of slides sent to the Bengal Veterinary College, no
Research work has been carried out. It will soon be necessary, however, to
make arrangements for the training of the Inspectors to carry out work of
this character in their own circles. The employment of an Inspector to take
charge of the professional portion of the office work, and to help in a small
Laboratory, which it is proposed to start, is also becoming urgent.
D. QUINLAN, M.R.C.V.S.,
Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department,
Bihar and Orissa.