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APPENDIX XXX—concluded.
DISTRICT.
1
Dacca ... ... ...
Mymensingh
...
...
Onittagong
...
...
Patna
...
...
Saran
... ...
Muzaffarpur
...
...
Name of disease.
2
Rinderpest ...
Rinderpest
and
other diseases.
Rinderpest ...
Ditto ...
Ditto
Rinderpest
and
authrax.
Character of the
disease.
3
Epidemic ... ...
Ditto
...
...
Ditto
...
...
Ditto
...
...
Ditto
Ditto ... ...
Date of outbreak.
4
April
...
...
...
Do.
...
...
...
......
......
May
...
...
...
August ... ... ...
Affected.
5
782
5,340
216
239
209
|
687
I
Animals.
Died.
6
211
4,707
200
138
119
123
Percentage
of deaths.
7
26.9
88.1
92.5
577
56.9
17.9
How the information about the
outbreak was received in
this office.
8
From the Calcutta Gazette of 21st
April.
From Calcutta Gazette of 7th April...
Magistrate of Chittagong
...
...
From the Veterinary Assistant at
Bankipore.
From the Subdivisional Officer, Gopal-
ganj, and from the District Magistrate
subsequently.
From the Magistrate ... ... ...
Remarks made by the District
Officers as to the outbreak
of disease.
9
Requested to send a Veterinary Assistant
The Magistrate reported that the disease
was not prevalent in epidemic form in
Netrokona subdivision, but a large
number of cattle was carried off in the
Kishoreganj subdivision.
No remarks
...
...
...
...
...
Ditto
...
...
...
...
...
Requested to send a Veterinary Assistant
Requested me to visit the district ... ...
Action taken by the Civil
Veterinary Department.
10
A Veterinary Assistant was sent, who
worked there till July, when the
disease subsided. Another out-
break among the municipal bullocks
was reported by telegraph in Nov-
ember, and a Veterinary Assistant
was employed under the Municipal-
ity, who succeeded in checking the
disease by the middle of December.
The municipality has decided to
engage a Veterinary Assistant per-
manently from the 1st April 1898.
Thirty copies of the Bengali translation
of Veterinary Colonel Hallen's
Manual of Cattle Disease and 20
copies of the rules for guidance in
epidemics of rinderpest were sup-
plied to the Magistrate for distribu-
tion.
A Veterinary Assistant is permanently
employed there, and so no action
from this Department was consi-
dered necessary.
The Assistant Superintendent visited
the place to investigate the disease.
No Veterinary Assistant could be sent.
as there were none available at the
time. Two months after the Sub-
divisional Officer, Gopalganj, re-
ported that the outbreak was of a
mild type, and completely subsided.
In August the Magistrate telegraph-
ed 40 deaths of cattle out of 60 at-
tacked in Parasa thana, and asked
for veterinary assistance. A Veteri-
nary Assistant was immediately
sent, and by his assistance the
disease died out in a short
time. Another Veterinary Assis-
tant of this Department was sent
in December at the request of the
Magistrate to Saran, and he visited
Siwan, Kutiya, and Manji. The
report of the Veterinary Assistant
shows that no trace could be found
of the disease when be visited the
affected places.
I visited the district myself in August
with my Assistant. Though the
statistical account received in this
office shows that only 123 head of
cattle died out of 687 attacked, in
my opinion thousands of cattle
died of rinderpest during the year
1897-98. The value of cattle lost
on one indigo concern alone
amounted to not less than Rs. 3,000.