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8. During the year 195 dogs and 78 carcasses of dogs from Calcutta
and elsewhere were sent to the dog hospital for suspected rabies, of which
90 proved to be suffering from the disease.
9. Eleven inspections of hides were made prior to their shipment to
different foreign ports during the year.
THE RAYMOND RESEARCH LABORATORY.
The work of the Laboratory was carried on in a satisfactory manner.
That this institution is gaining popularity is shown by the fact that not only
the various Provincial Veterinary Departments sent specimens for examin-
ation. but the local private practitioners, both European and Indian, and the
general public sought assistance. The examinations of pathological speci-
mens and the conduct of autopsies continue to increase in numbers.
Materials were supplied to the Imperial Serologist, Lt.-Col. W. D. Sutherland,
m.d., i.M.S., Lt.-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, kt., c.i.e., i.m.s., and Sir John
McFadyean, for their work.
2. We have been fortunate to secure the assistance of Mr. T. Southwell
for the identification of our cestode collection. A new variety of Indian
Tick (Hemaphysalis Innermis Var Aponommoides) has lately been described
in the Journal of Parasitology by Mr. Warburton of the University of Cam-
bridge from the specimens sent from our collection. This variety is allied
to Hemaphysalis Innermis Berula and Hemaphysalis Warburtonii Nuttall.
3. Samples of bone-meal for the New Zealand Government and those
of oil-cakes for the Sabour Agricultural College were bacteridogieally
examined for the detection of Anthrax or other organisms.
4. A case of Surra was treated by the method suggested by the
Imperial Bacteriologist. viz., by Atoxyl and Arsenic. The animal under
treatment showed a peculiar idyosyncracy to the drug and unfortunately died.
The records will be forwarded to the Imperial Bacteriologist for opinion.
5. Owing to the paucity of the supply of anti-rinderpest serum, a
quantity of Edington's Bile was prepared and inoculated into the cattle
patients of the hospital, with successful results. We carried out some
experiments on the efficacy of Indian " Blistering Beetles " at the instance of
the Imperial Entomologist, Pusa, and also investigated an outbreak of Septi-
caemia among the monal pheasants of the Zoological Garden. This was an
acute infective disease characterised by suddenness of the attack, somnolence,
violent diarrhæa and fatal termination within a few hours. It was caused
by " Vibrio Metehnikovi" which is morphologically and culturally closely
allied to the organism of Asiatic Cholera of man. This disease has so far
been little studied in this country.
6. At the instance of Dr. Georgiana Sweet, Professor of Biology in the
University of Melbourne, some enquiries were made about the occurrence
and prevalence of certain " worm nodules " in cattle. All the public abbatoirs
were visited in this connection, but no definite information could be obtained.
7. At my direction Balm Satyendra Nath Mitra, g.b.v.c. Lecturer and
Senior Assistant in the Laboratory, read a popular paper on Glanders at
the Calcutta Medical Society. Some papers on Veterinary Science were
prepared by Babu S. K. Mitra and Babu H. C. Ganguli, g.b.v.c, the Junior
Hospital Surgeon, which will shortly be published with the concurrence of
the Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India.
8. One Veterinary Assistant from the Central Provinces and one from
Travancore attended the post-graduate course of study. The senior students
also received instruction in post-mortem examinations and inoculations of
various kinds of preventive Sera and Vaccines.
9. On behalf of the Government of Bihar and Orissa, Babu Satyendra
Nath Mitra was deputed with the permission of the Director of Agriculture,
Bengal, to Puri to investigate an outbreak of Contagious Opthalmia among the
conservancy bullocks there. The disease. which appears peculiar to lower
animals. is said to affect human beings as well.
A. SMITH, Major.
Principal, Bengal Veterinary College.