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operation during the year. The brief experience hitherto gained appears to
indicate that the scheme was not initiated on perfectly sound line3 and will
need reconstitution in detail. Meanwhile the final report promised by the
Director is awaited.
5. The great advance in the number of preventive inoculations performed
during the year and the increase in the percentage of resulting immunity augur
well for the future. The unfortunate break in the supply of serum from
Mukteswar prevented the Department from obtaining even better results
than those shown. A large proportion of the inoculations performed were car-
ried out by the new experimental agency in the Ranchi District.
6. No new dispensary was opened during the year and the work of existing
institutions calls for no comment.
7. The first serious attempt to deal with the highly important question of
cattle breeding has now been made with the establishment of a farm for this
purpose at Sipaya in North Bihar under the direct control of the Local
Government. The abnormal rise in the price of cattle, which has been remark-
ed in recent years, and the deterioration of stock indicated the necessity for
undertaking a measure of this kind with the least possible delay. A gift of
over 50 head of valuable pedigree cattle, which was made by the Maharani of
Hatwa, supplied the nucleus of a herd which is now maintained under the con-
trol of Mr. M. Mackenzie, the Superintendent of Sipaya. The cordial thanks
of His Honour in Council are due to the Maharani Sahiba for her generous gift.
The detailed scheme for the equipment and management of the farm is awaited
from the Director of Agriculture and will be submitted to the Government of
India in the course of the next few months.
8. An experimental census of the agricultural stock of the province was
taken last year through the agency of village chaukidars and Panchayats. The
results, which have lately been reviewed by Government, are satisfactory and
future operations of this nature, which have formed the subject of recent cor-
respondence with the Government of India, will be conducted at suitable
intervals on similar lines. His Honour in Council still awaits the preliminary
enquiry into the question of a cattle survey which was made by Mr. Milne.
9. Five Veterinary Inspectors, two special Inspectors of Inoculation in
Ranchi, and 57 Veterinary Assistants worked under the control of the Superin-
tendent during the year. Reports on their work are generally good. Special
commendation has been made in the Director's letter of the work of Babu
P. N. Das, the first Veterinary Inspector.
10. Mr. Quinlan continued to discharge his duties with the most commend-
able energy. The unwieldiness of his charge is a constant impediment to a satis-
factory outturn of work and handicaps most seriously all efforts to control a
campaign against epidemic diseases. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council
trusts that it will be possible in the near future to give him such assistance as
will enable supervision to be more closely carried out.
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.
F. F. LYALL,
Offg. Seoretary to Government.