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Expenditure of the College.
26. The main results and the receipts and expenditure are given in
Table I. The statement of receipts and expenditure has been compiled by
me and verified by the Accountant-General, Bengal.
General Remarks.
27. Mr. A. D. MacGregor of the Indian Civil Verterinary Department
remained under training throughout the year.
The sanctioned appointment of a second Imperial Officer to this college is
at present vacant.
Mr. S. C. Pal, the Chief Glanders Inspector, acted as a Lecturer in con-
sequence of the temporary promotion of Mr. D. Dey to the post of Assistant
Principal, on furlough.
During the summer vacation, Deputy Superintendent S. N. Mitra was
deputed to the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, Muktesar. to enlarge his
experience in Serum Therapy. Laboratory Technique and Inoculation work.
Again in the cold weather, Deputy Superintendent S. K. Mitra and Veterinary
Inspector B. N. Das Gupta were deputed, as an experimental measure, to
Bombay and the Punjab to improve their knowledge of " Bovines " and to
enlarge their experience. This, in my opinion, has been a sueeess. A special
report has been submitted to Government.
28. Public Works Department Works.—The works executed during the
year were—(i) the raising and levelling of a portion of the college compound ;
(ii) ambulance shed ; (iii) thatch lining under the corrugated iron roof of the
cattle sheds ; (iv) roughening the patent stone floor of the cattle sheds ; (v)
manure pit ; (vi) straightening the western boundary of the college compound;
(vii) improvement of filtered water-supply ; (viii) two isolation cattle sheds ;
(ix) office, dispensary and godown for the cattle ward ; and (x) remodelling
surface drains of the dissection room, serum house and post-mortem room.
20. Staff.—The extra work on the teaching staff entailed by the absence
of three of their number during several months of the year has been most
willingly and efficiently done.
A similar comment is due to the office staff on whom extra work was
thrown due to the continued absence on sick leave of the Manager of the
Hostel.
THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS DEPARTMENT,
CALCUTTA.
All the stables lying in the Glanders area were regularly inspected, in
six of which Glanders and in three Surra were detected.
2. Twenty-live horses were brought into the hospital for observation and
tested with mallein. Eight proved to be suffering from Glanders and
Farcy and four from Surra and in conesquence were destroyed. Two died soon
after admittance in the hospital one of which, on post-mortem
examination,
proved to be glandered and the other non-glandered.
Nino cases of Surra occurred amongst the horses and mules belonging to
the 12th Cavalry, Ballygunge. all of which were destroyed. As horses of
other squadrons of this regiment were under suspicion for Glanders, all the
horses and mules (226 in number) of the squadron at Ballygunge were
tested with mallein with the result that they were found free from Glanders.
3. Rupees one hundred and twenty-five were paid as compensation to
horse owners for compulsory slaughter of their animals under the Act.
4. One thousand one hundred and ninety-eight cattle were inoculated
with protective serum against Rinderpest which was very rife in Calcutta
and its neighbourhood—especially in the Zoological Garden, Supply and
Transport Lines, Alipore Gowkhana, Garden Reach Municipality and the
Orphangunge Cattle Market. Foot and Mouth disease was also very pre-
valent among the bullocks of the Supply and Transport Lines, the draft
bullocks of the Royal Botanic Garden the conservancy cattle of the
Howrah Municipal cattle-yard and the grazing cattle of the Factory Estate,