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Professor and Resident Veterinary Officer, acted as Principal from 6th December 1890 till
31st March 1891, when he was relieved by Veterinary Captain G. J. R. Rayment, who served
up to 3rd August 1891. On the 12th August 1891 Veterinary Captain James Mills was
appointed Principal, and still serves. Veterinary Surgeon T. Pottinger also officiated as
Principal.
Graduates.—Out of the 68 Licentiates of Veterinary Science and Graduates, 18 are in
the service of Government, 18 in Native States, 13 under Local Fund Boards, 5 in private
practice, 4 are studying at other colleges, and of 10 nothing is known as to how they are
employed. For really good practical men there is no lack of employment whatever, and there
are several appointments at present vacant, but no suitable men are available to fill them,
Hospital.—There is a large hospital for animals situated in the college compound, erected
principally by the family of Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Bart, and managed by the Bombay
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The hospital consists of two stables to
accommodate 50 horses, five cattle sheds with standings for 200 patients, one isolation shed,
and kennels for 20 dogs. The college staff afford medical aid to the hospital in return for
the clinical facilities afforded for teaching purposes.
Rangoon
Veterinary
School.
26. Rangoon possesses a veterinary school, established for the purpose
of training Veterinary assistants for Government service in the various
districts of upper and lower Burma, to work as cattle disease inspectors, under
the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department.
27. The institution is under the able management of Veterinary Lieute
nant G. H. Evans. The classes are held in Burmese language, and the men
are thoroughly trained in inspection duties. They have proved of very great
value in the suppression of outbreaks of contagious diseases, and will render
still greater service when the Burma Cattle-disease Act is brought into opera-
tion.
Veterinary
College and
School, Madras
Presidency.
28. Madras is the only presidency remaining without, or without the
promise of a veterinary college or school. The losses sustained annually by the
native agriculturist of that presidency have been acknowledged as very heavy.
Returns furnished a few years ago afforded evidence of this.
No. 19-C., dated 5th May 1890.
29. I submitted a letter (see Appendix V, page 114) to that Government
urging the advisability of establishing a
veterinary school in the city of Madras,
where a large hospital for the reception of sick and lame animals would be
considered a boon to cattle and horse owners, and would afford a grand field
for the educating of veterinary students. The veterinary class attached to the
Saidapet Agricultural College, 8 or 9 miles from Madras, and so out of reach of
owners of sick and lame animals in the city, has proved a failure in providing
practical native veterinarians, as the practice in the veterinary hospital attach-
ed to the Agricultural College has been so very limited. Moreover, the study
of veterinary medicine and surgery requires the whole attention of a student,
and he has no time to study strictly agricultural matters. The Royal Agricul-
tural College of Cirencester does not attempt to educate practical veterinarians,
but only to give agricultural students a knowledge of the general principles
and practice of veterinary science. It appears to me strange that the
Madras Government have not determined to inaugurate a veterinary school in
Madras. The letter above quoted has been a second time brought officially to
the notice of His Excellency the Governor of Madras in Council, and I much
regret to find without any satisfactory result ; indeed, as this report is going to
Press, I regret to have to record the following:—
Proceedings of the Government of Madras,—No. 3863; dated 20th October 1893.
Read the following:—
Proceedings of the Educational Department, dated 5th October 1893, No. 733, on letter
from the Director of Public Instruction, Madras, dated 8th August 1893, No.
8929, submitting, with remarks, copy of a letter from the Principal, College of
Agriculture, on the proposal to open a veterinary school in the city of Madras.
ORDER.—The proposal to establish a veterinary school and hospital in Madras town
does not in the present state of affairs commend itself to Government; the idea must, there-
fore, be abandoned.