(2)
promoted to the 3rd-year class, while one failed in one subject, but has been
permitted to appear for re-examination in June. Of the six students in the first
year, two were removed for ill-health and four passed and went on to the next
higher class.
9. The United Provinces Veterinary Medical Society, which was started
in 1912 by the members of the civil veterinary staff, is doing good work and is
greatly to bo encouraged as means of keeping the members up to date in their
scientific knowledge, and promoting an interchange of professional ideas. Much
good work has been done by means of magic lantern demonstrations dealing with
veterinary work, and connected with live-stock generally. It is intonded to hold
a meeting this year in which awards will bo made for the best papers read on
scientific and agricultural subjects.
10. Demonstrations and loctures on veterinary subjects were given by
members of the staff in some of the important fairs and shows.
11. The scheme for establishing a veterinary college for these provinces
has been held back for sometime owing to the War and other causes. The diffi-
culty experienced in obtaining veterinary assistants to carry on the work of this
rapidly expanding department is becoming greater yearly, and must in the near
future necessitate the provision of means for the education of these officers.
II.—Treatment of disease.
See table II.
12. During the year under report 35,320 cases of contagious disease have
been notified from practically all the districts in the province with a reported
mortality of 16,233 against 17,107 in 1917-18. Rinderpest, as usual, has been the
most serious and has accounted for 11,821 of the deaths reported. There has been
a substantial reduction in the death-rate from haemorrhagic septicaemia, anthrax,
blackquarter, foot-and-mouth disease and surra.
13. Equine.—Equine contagious disease occurring in the four selected
horse-breeding districts, viz. Muzaffarnagar, Meernt, Bulandshahr, and Aligarh are
dealt with by the Army Remount department, while the Army Veterinary Corps
deals with the affected animals in the various branches of the Military department.
The figures here only refer to those eases brought directly under the notice of the
Civil Veterinary department.
14. Glanders and Farey.—Forty-five
cases of glanders were detected
during the year, and occurred in the districts of Dehra Dun, Moradabad, Jaunpur,
Naini Tal, and Gonda. They either succumbed to the malady or were destroyed
in accordance with the Glanders and Farcy Ac... It appears to have assumed a
severe form at Gonda, where one of the Deputy Superintendents and two head-
quarters veterinary assistants were deputed to dual with the outbreak, and it is
satisfactory to be able to report that the disease was speedily suppressed. Rupees
three hundred and sixty-eight have been awarded in compensation during the year
for compulsory slaughter of animals, to poor owners to whom the destruction
of their animals would be a severe loss.
15. Surra.- This year this disease did not occur in such a severe form as
last year; only 62 cases were reported, which either died or were destroyed.
The
Local Government has extended the scheme for granting compensation in this
disease as in the case of danders and farcy.
16. Staw ,lis—Two hundred and twenty-five cases of this disease have
been reported but there is every reason to believe however that many more cases
occur than ever are method to this department,
17. T binus—As usual, many cases of this disease have this year been
reported by veterinary assistants, of which 43 proved fatal.
This malady
amongst animals is much more prevalent than is generally supposed, but except
in cases actually brought to the notice of the veterinary assistants difficulty is
experierced in obtaining accurate information.
18. Offer Contaqious disecses.—Under this heading, cases of horse-pox.
piropla mosis, anthrax, rabies, as well as those diseases caused by internal and
external parasites have been met with, but up to the present it has not been found
practical to introduce a reliable system for obtaining returns.
BOVINE.
19. Rinderpest.—This disease has this year visited the province in a parti-
cularly severe manner, only two districts altogether escaping its ravages, although