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20. Surra.—This year this disease appeared to be less widespread
than in the previous year. The districts of Bulandshahr and Etawah.
were severely affected. This malady broke out in the middle of August
and continued for over five months subsiding by the end of January,
1927. The first cases were reported from Cawnpore and Bulandshahr
districts.
Fortunately Cawnpore, the district which was the most
affected last year has been little troubled with the disease this year. Due
to early action being taken by all concerned, the disease has been kept well
under control with the result that only 97 cases were detected as com-
pared with 787 cases of the previous year. This is very gratifying and
goes to show that useful work has been done by the subordinate staff. A
total sum of Rs. 976 has been paid as compensation.
21. Anthrax.—Five
cases of this disease were reported from the
district of Basti.
22. Dourine.—No cases of this disease have been reported.
23.
Other contagious diseases.—During the year under report one
hundred and twenty-three deaths were reported. This includes cases of
horse-pox, piroplasmosis,. tetanus, as well as those diseases caused by
internal and external parasites.
BOVINE.
24. Rinderpest.—During
the year under report, there has been
some abatement in the ravages of this disease. In the early months of
the year under report it prevailed throughout the entire province, not a
single district escaped but from January, 1927, there was a gradual
decline in the number of outbreaks and deaths upto the end of the year,
except in the district of Garhwal where it is still prevalent. In 16
districts the mortality in each did not reach a hundred. The total mor-
tality during the year was reported to be 22,110 as against 24 778 last
year. The districts of Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Bulandshahr, Bareilly,
Moradabad, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit, Etawah, Cawnpore, Banda, Fatehpur,
Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Naini Tal, Almora, Garhwal, Sitapur, Hardoi
and Kheri were badly affected. The district of Garhvval ever since
1925 has been suffering from a very severe outbreak of the disease
and every effort was made to check the spread and the mortality. The
local staff of only two veterinary assistant surgeons having been found
quite inadequate to deal with the outbreak extending, as it did, over
such a large area of mountainous country, two more men from the head-
quarters. staff were deputed to help them, These men are still there
helping the local men. It is proposed to supplement the headquarters
staff permanently by ten more men in order to increase inoculation work
in the Kumaun division with a view to eradicate the disease as far as
possible, for which provision has been made in the supplementary esti-
mates for the year 1927-28 and in case, the Council sanction the funds,
arrangements will be made without loss of time to appoint these men
and then depute them immediately to the Kumaun division to carry out
inoculations as far as possible.
25. Foot and mouth disease. — During the year under report 2,712
animals died from this disease as compared with 6,590 in the previous
year. The disease appeared in all the districts of the province except
Dehra Dun, Jaunpur, Ballia, Almora, Lucknow, Unao, Sitapur, Partab-
garh and Bara Banki. The highest mortality took place in the districts