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9. Mr. T. S. Davies, Officiating 1st Deputy Superintendent, travelles
777 miles by road and 4,370 miles by rail and remained on tour for 12
days. During the time he inspected all the dispensaries and stallion stand
of bis sub-division and attended outbreaks of surra and glanders in the
districts of Shahjahanpur and Moradabad. He also attended the Morad
abad horse and cattle fair,
10. Saiyed Mohammad Raza Husain, Officiating 2nd Deputy Superin
tendent, travelled 4,650 miles by rail and 1,226 miles by road and was on
tour for 164 days. He inspected all the dispensaries and stallion stands
his sub-division. He personally supervised the checking of a serious out
break of haemorrhagic septicaemia in the Cawnpore district during the
months of September and October, 1923. He checked some of the out
breaks attended by the district veterinary staff in the districts of Jalaun,
Banda, Fatehpur, and Hamirpur. He personally investigated an out.
break of surra in the Banda district. He attended the cattle fairs held as
Chitra Kote (Banda) and Makanpur (Cawnpore). As far as possible, he
interviewed the district officers, chairmen, and members of the district
boards and influential zamindars and discussed veterinary matters with
them. He attended the district board meetings of Fatehpur, Agra, and
Cawnpore.
11. Pandit Tek Chand, Officiating 3rd Deputy Superintendent, was
on leave from the 8th April to the 16th June, 1923. He was on tour for
152 days and travelled 5,741 miles by rail and 1,569 miles by road. He
inspected all the veterinary dispensaries and stallion stands of his sub
division. He checked and supervised the work of the itinerating veteri
nary assistant surgeons and personally attended many outbreaks. He
attended the district board meetings of Ghazipur, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, and
Basti and discussed veterinary matters with the chairmen and members on
the board.
I.—VETERINARY INSTRUCTION.
12. No students were sent to the Punjab Veterinary College this year,
as the cadre of the district boards and the headquarters subordinate
establishment was full as well as there was a number of qualified veterinary
assistant surgeons in the list of candidates awaiting appointments. Out
of the three students who were already undergoing a course of study at
the Bengal Veterinary College in the final class, two passed and one failed;
and one in the 2nd year class passed and promoted to the 3rd year. of
the Punjab students, two in the first year class failed and were removed
from the college,
13. The United Provinces Veterinary Medical Society, started by the
subordinate staff in 1912, is continuing to do good work and is publishing an
Urdu Veterinary journal monthly. A well attended and successful meeting
was held in Lucknow in March last.
14. Several pamphlets in the vernacular dealing with some diseases
of cattle in India were distributed.
II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
See Table II.
15. The chief feature of this year's return has been the very consider-
able decrease in the numbers of deaths from contagious diseases amongst
the bovine although there was an increase in the numbers of mortality
amongst the equine and other animals. The total mortality notified from
the whole of the province was 8,760 as compared with 14,254 of the