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REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY RESEARCH,
Name
9. Mr. Maung KO
KoGyi.
10. Mr. Maung Tun
Hlaing.
11. Mr. S. K. Gupta .
Province
or other
authority
Veterinary Inspector,
Civil Veterinary De-
partment, Burma.
Ditto .
Veterinary
Officer,
Municipal
Board,
Allahabad.
From
19th July 1924
19th July 1924
1st June 1924
To
20th
October
1924.
20th
October
1924.
15th
August
1924.
The above visitors pursued their studies according to a set time-table, and attended a
series of elementary lectures, demonstrations, and practical laboratory exercises given to
them by the technical officers on the staff. The assiduity and degree of intelligence dis-
played by all were most encouraging, and it seems that the laboratory can well render a
real service to the veterinary organizations throughout India by developing this system
of instruction. The main difficulties towards the expansion of this line of activity at
present lie in the inadequacy of the higher technical staff sanctioned by Government to
cope with all the work that presents itself to them, and also in the lack of living accommoda-
tion for visitors within the station. Proposals were put up to Government during the
year for the erection of hostels for visitors under training, and schemes were discussed
towards its close for strengthening the staff so that the beneficial activities already ex-
ploited might stand in no danger of discontinuance.
M. Yakub Ali, Laboratory Assistant, Government Bovine Lymph Depôt, Patwa
Dangar, United Provinces, stayed at the laboratory from April 1st to June 30th, 1924,
and was instructed in the vernacular chiefly in regard to the routine out-door processes.
Judging from the nature of the enquiries received at the laboratory and the demands
for material to combat cattle disease, the veterinary organization of the Mysore Govern-
ment appears to be actuated with an earnest desire to be ranked in the forefront as regards
efficiency. After correspondence with regard to the best method of improving its staff
so as to have available men competent to undertake the technicalities connected with
modern methods of investigation, the Mysore authorities obtained the sanction of the
Government of India to depute to the laboratory two of its most promising junior in-
spectors for a prolonged course of tuition, extending over three years. The two inspectors
Messrs. K. Ranganath Rao and P. N. Nair on arrival, on the 3rd January 1925, were
placed for instruction under Mr. Haddow at the Izatnagar laboratory, for preliminary
training in elementary subjects and upon the large scale manufacture of anti-sera.
IV. Preparation and Issue of Sera Vaccines.
(A summary of the results reported to have been obtained in the field is given in
Appendix I.)
What have been termed the processes of routine manufacture of all products for issue
to the field have been subjected to the closest review during the last four years, with the
object of obtaining unequivocal evidence as to the efficacy of these prophylactic agents,
of ascertaining the most economic and expeditious modes of manufacture, and of
distributing them with the greatest despatch on request to consumers in the field. Such
work must indeed be regarded as of the nature of research, although it is undertaken
for plain economic reasons, and, in reality, schemes of genuine research at an institution
of this kind must necessarily be so intimately bound up with those of routine manufac-
ture that it is very hard to dissociate them. During the earlier period of the development
of this work an endeavour was made to execute both routine and research measures side
by side at Muktesar, but experience showed that close vigilance was required lest the exi-
gencies of Provincial customers might have to suffer through lack of regard on the part
of the organization employed at the laboratory for the prime nece sity of accumulating
ample stocks of standardized material for ready despatch to the field. The possession of