Annual Report of the Civil Veterinary
department,
United Provinces,
1914-15.
1. The administration report of the department for the year ending March
31st, 1915, is herewith submitted.
2. I held charge of the department throughout the year and Mr. C. W.
Wilson carried out the duties of second Superintendent.
3. I was on tour for 133 days and travelled 17,352 miles by rail and 686 by
road. I visited 22 districts, making inspections of veterinary hospitals and
dispensaries, district stallion stands and cattle-breeding centres, as well as other
departmental institutions. It was necessary to pay many visits to the stallion
d6p6t at Moradabad, the bull run at Kheri, and to the new cattle farm under
construction in the Muttra district. Stud bulls, young equine and bovine stock
were inspected and the experimental flocks of sheep located in various parts of the
province necessitated a good deal of attendance. I visited the co-operative credit
dairies at Lucknow and Benares and gave advice as to their management.
Wherever possible the work of veterinary inspectors and assistants was supervised
and checked, and horse and cattle fairs attended. I inspected the ponies of the
tonga lines and the working bullocks in some of the important municipalities.
Personal visits were made and investigations carried out in outbreaks of
contagious disease, and wherever possible preventive inoculation was introduced.
I spent four days at Bombay for the purchase of stallions and visited Calcutta to
see the Raymond research station, and to consult the Principal of the veterinary
college with regard to the stipendiary students.
4. Mr. C. W. Wilson was on tour 115 days, during which time he travelled
by rail 8,266 miles and 1,719 miles by road. His tours ranged in 24 districts,
where veterinary hospitals and dispensaries were inspected and the work of the
subordinate staff checked. Where outbreaks of cattle disease occurred inoculation
work was supervised. All the stallion stands in his circle except one in the
Gorakhpur district were visited as were also the stud bulls maintained by district
boards and other bodies; the experimental sheep flocks were also regularly seen.
He attended the Manjhra cattle farm at Lakhimpur on several occasions to select
bulls for district boards and court of wards estates, and for investigation of certain
parasitic diseases which where causing some mortality amongst the sheep and
lambs. He judged the cattle and horses at the annual exhibition held at Hardoi,
and at the Khairabad fair and was deputed to Lahore to act as an examiner at the
Punjab veterinary college. He inspected the Dehra Dun-Chakrata tonga line and
personally conducted inoculation campaigns against rinderpest in the Gorakhpur and
Lucknow districts. Visits were made to check the inoculation work performed in
the Lalitpur, Jhansi, Gorakhpur and Lucknow districts, and glanders cases were
dealt with in Allahabad, Naini Tal and Basti. He attended Cawnpore to purchase
buffaloes for the Government cattle farm, and visited court of wards estates
regarding sheep and cattle breeding. Sites were inspected for hospitals at
Bikapur, Bara Banki, Misrikh and Sidhauli.
5. M. Niaz Muhammad, Deputy Superintendent, was on tour for 208 days
and travelled 7,548 miles by rail and 1,415 by road. He visited 17 districts,
during this time making inspections of the subordinate staff and organising
campaigns against animal contagious disease. He attended the cattle shows and
agricultural exhibitions at Batesar, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Meerut, &c., and
demonstrated veterinary methods to the stock owners. He spent some time on
the Kathgodam-Ranikhet road and also on the Chakrata dâk lines to deal
with outbreaks of surra and glanders. Tours were made through nearly all
the horse-breeding tracts for the purpose of supervision of horse-breeding
operations, inspection of the stud animals and checking the covering returns.
He assisted the Superintendents generally in inspections of veterinary hospitals,
dispensaries and the subordinate staff and attended the department's cattle farms
and dépôts in connection with the selection, branding and registering of the
animals, meanwhile giving practical instruction to the attendants.