Annual Report of the Civil Veterinary
Department,
United Provinces,
1912-1913.
1. Administration report of the department for the year ending March the
31st, 1913, is herewith submitted.
2. Mr. E.W. Oliver held charge of the department up to February the 21st,
1913, when he proceeded on leave. He also carried out the duties of Second
Superintendent in addition to his own work from April 19th to October 20th
during the absence of Mr. C. W. Wilson on leave.
Mr. C. W. Wilson carried out the duties of Second Superintendent from
April the 1st to 18th and from October the 21st to the end of the year. He also
officiated as Superintendent from February the 21st, 1913, to the end of the year
in addition to his own duties.
3. Mr. Oliver was on tour for 133 days and travelled 555 miles by road and
18,268 miles by rail. He toured in twenty-one districts, supervising the work of
the veterinary inspectors and the district board veterinary assistants. Nearly all
the veterinary hospitals and dispensaries were visited and sites for the erection of
others were selected, while a great deal of travelling was undertaken to inspect
various stallion stands and stud bulls maintained by local bodies and others. It
was often found necessary to visit and spend some time at the Moradabad stallion
depôt for inspection and selection of sires for district work and constant supervision
of the bull-rearing farm at Lakhimpur has entailed a great deal of travelling.
Land for another cattle farm at Madhuri Kund in Muttra district has also been
surveyed with the object of acquiring a suitable site for this purpose. Much
touring has, as usual, been found necessary in connection with the Glanders,
Farcy, Surra and Dourine Acts and in supervising sheep-breeding operations in
various localities. Mr. Oliver personally attended and carried out investigation
and research in twenty outbreaks of disease and wherever possible directed
inoculations and treatment. He visited Bombay for the purchase of stallions
and inspected various tonga lines in the provinces. During these tours district
officers, landowners, managers of courts of wards, and others interested in agricul-
tural stock were met and conferred with and meetings of committees dealing with
the question of improving the conditions of dairy produce were attended and
expert advice given.
4. Mr. C. W. Wilson was on tour for 82 days, during which time he toured
in twenty-four districts and travelled 6,678 miles by rail and 350 miles by road.
He inspected the majority of the hospitals and dispensaries in his circle, all the
stallion stands and attended cattle fairs at Ballia, Dewa, Khairabad, Sardhwa,
Atarra, Etawah, Hardoi, and Saharanpur, acting as judge or member of committee.
He inspected stud bulls, the property of courts of wards and advised special managers
regarding cattle-breeding and maintenance of stud animals. He personally
attended outbreaks of cattle disease in 13 districts and supervised the inoculation
work. A considerable amount of his time was spent in checking inoculation returns,
specially in those districts where opposition to inoculation had previously been met
with. He was deputed to select for district boards, court of wards, and private
persons, stud bulls from the Hissar cattle farm. The sheep flocks in his circle were
inspected and advice given to those in whose hands the care of the flocks is entrusted.
He attended the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at the Manjhra cattle farm
and paid periodical visits of inspections. He personally accompanied the foot-and-
mouth disease enquiry commission to village Manaura in the Jalaun district to
demonstrate disease in situ and attended the examinations of final year students
at Punjab Veterinary College, Lahore, as a member of the board of examiners.
VETERINARY INSTRUCTION.
5. The veterinary colleges are now providing for their students a suitable
training in inoculation, &c., and these men on first entering this department are
furthermore, as opportunity occurs, deputed to districts under the supervision of
an inspector where actual outbreaks of diseases exist in order that they may acquire
a working knowledge of inoculation methods as conducted in the field. Hence