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A Conference composed of the Director of Agriculture, the Deputy Com-
missioner of Ranchi and myself was held in Ranchi to discuss questions
connected with the scheme. Certain suggestions for its better administration
were approved, and have since been carried out.
During the year under report 75,280 doses of Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia
Vaccine and 15,000 doses of Anti-rinderpest Serum were received at the Depôt
in Ranchi from Muktesar, of which 74,780 and 13,300 doses respectively
were supplied to the Missionaries, etc., up to the end of the year. Table XIV (B)
shows cost of the establishment.
As regards the Sera and Vaccines used by the Department, 146,000 doses of
Anti-rinderpest Serum representing a value of Rs. 13,075 ; 16,000 doses of
H. S. Vaccine, 5,650 doses of H. S. Serum and 366 doses of Anthrax were
obtained from the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, Muktesar, and distri-
buted during the year. A sum of Rs. 5,647-8-0 was realised on account of
Anti-rinderpest Serum, from the local bodies and credited to Government.
The amount outstanding will be recovered during the next half-year, as ac-
counts are submitted half-yearly. The total cost of Serum supplied to Cham-
paran District Board amounted to Rs. 5,612-8-0.
Dep6ts for Serum, Vaccine, etc., will be opened during the coming year
at Muzaffarpur and Cuttack, and will be placed in charge of the local Veterin-
ary Assistants.
TABLE IV.
This table shows the work of the Itinerant Veterinary Assistants, and of
such Stationary Veterinary Assistants as toured during the year in the mufassil,
in addition to carrying on their hospital work. On the 1st of April 1914 there
were 41 Itinerant Veterinary Assistants on the roll, including those in charge of
four combined appointments of Ranchi, Palamau, Manbhum and Hazaribagh.
During the year the number was increased to 52 by the addition of 3 Bihari
and one Oriya graduates, who passed from the Veterinary College, three Bengali
and one Madrasi Veterinary Assistants, and one Bihari Veterinary Assistant
from Dumraon, not in Government service before, as well as two Urdu-
speaking graduates of the Punjab Veterinary College ; but out of this number,
the Itinerant Veterinary Assistant of Kendrapara, Cuttack, Babu J. N. Mitter
resigned ; the services of Babu M. M. Bannerjee, Veterinary Assistant of Bala-
sore were placed at the disposal of the Agriculture Department, he having been
recommended for the appointment of Veterinary Assistant in charge of the
Sepaya Cattle Farm and Babu K. B. Lal of Gumla was dismissed for unsatis-
factory work, leaving thus, at the end of the year, 49 Itinerant Veterinary
Assistants.
I wish to bring to notice the good work done during the year by the
following assistants:—
Babus M. Agnihotri, Gopalgunge ; S. C. Bose, Dhanbad ; A. T. Das,
Giridih; D. N. Mukerjee, Hazaribagh; S. Chakravarti, Angul;
R. N. Prosad, Sewan ; B. B. Chowdhuri, Kendrapara ; R. N. Pundit,
Jamui; Maulvi E. H. Khan, Gaya Sadr ; Maulvi M. H. Khan, Barh.
The work of the Itinerant Veterinary Assistants of Jehanabad, Nawada,
Palamau, Kissengunj, Araria, Madhipura and Buxar was unsatisfactory.
Veterinary Assistant, Babu A. C. Sen of Palamau and Babu S. C. Prosad were
suspended, the former for bad work, and the latter for submission of a false
Travelling Allowance Bill. Both those Assistants have been placed in the
Reserve. The total number of new cases treated by Itinerant Veterinary
Assistants has been 53,616 as compared with 40,442 cases treated in 1913-14.
TABLE V.
The number of hospitals was reduced from 22 to 20 during the year, as
the vacancies in the hospitals at Dumraon and Hathwa could not be filled. The
District Board of Ranchi has not yet decided to build a new hospital, but it is
hoped that funds will be available to erect one during the next year. It is