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Ishapore. Prompt attention was given to all outbreaks. A sum of Rs. 390-8
was realised on account of the anti-rinderpest serum used and credited to
Government.
5. While the Presidency Remount Depot remained closed from 27th
February to 8th September 1914, 505 horses and one cow were inspected on
boardship. No clinical symptom of any infectious disease was found.
6. At the instance of the Health Officer of the Corporation of Calcutta,
84 calves were put to the tuberculin test at the Animal Vaccine Depot,
Ballygunge ; of these only two reacted.
7. All the byres in the Glanders area were systematically inspected.
8. Rabies has been very prevalent in Calcutta during the year under
report. One hundred and sixty dogs and 124 carcasses of dogs from Calcutta
and elsewhere were examined for rabies, and 187 proved to be suffering from
the disease.
9. Inspections of bides intended for shipment to different foreign ports
were made during the year.
THE RAYMOND RESEARCH LABORATORY.
The work of the Laboratory was satisfactory as in previous years.
2. Pathological and other specimens continued to be received from the
Civil Veterinary Departments of Bengal and Bihar and Orissa, Army Depart-
ment, European and Indian practitioners and other gentlemen. Autopsies
were made on carcasses received from the Bengal and Calcutta Police, Zoolo-
gical Garden, Calcutta Corporation, Church of England Zenana Mission,
Army Transport Department and other sources.
3. Morbid materials and specimens were supplied to the Imperial
Bacteriologist, Imperial Serologist and Major C. A. Lane, I.M.S., for their
work.
4. Surra which broke out in 12th Cavalry, Ballygunge, was microscopi-
cally diagnosed. Samples of bone-meal were bacteriologically examined for
the detection of anthrax and other organisms.
5. Auto-vaccine was prepared in the Laboratory with which some
newly-imported horses of the Army Remount Depôt were successfully treated.
Preventive vaccine for Fowl-Cholera was also prepared with which the
healthy monal pheasants of the Zoological Garden among which Fowl-Cholera
broke out were inoculated with satisfactory results.
6. Some lantern slides of symptoms of different kinds of contagious
disease among cattle were prepared with the object of exhibiting them in
cattle fairs and shows in the hopes that by this means the people may be
encouraged to take more interest in the veterinary profession.
7. The following papers were published with the concurrence of the
Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India :—
(a) A brief note on an outbreak of Septicaemia among the monal
pheasants of the Calcutta Zoological Garden by me and Mr. S. N. Mitra
(Veterinary Journal, London); (b) Contagious Ophthalmia among cattle by
Mr. S. N. Mitra (Veterinary Journal, London) ; (c) Tuberculosis in the Liver
and Spleen of a Lemur by Mr. S. N. Mitra (Veterinary Record, London) ;
(d) A Tumour at the base of an Antler of an Indian spotted deer by Mr. S. N.
Mitra (Veterinary Record. London), and (e) Intussusception in a dog by
Mr. R. V. Pillai (Veterinary Journal, London).
8. The monograph on the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory was
translated into Bengali by Mr. S. N. Mitra at the direction of the Imperial
Bacteriologist for distribution among the leading men of this province.
A. SMITH, LT.-COL.,
Principal, Bengal Veterinary College.