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Section II (Revenue)—Appendix V.
(Referred to in paragraph 29, page 43.)
No. 19-C., dated Meerut, 5th May 1890.
From—INSPECTING VETERINARY SURGEON J. H. B. HALLEN, General Superin-
tendent, Horse Breeding Department,
To—The Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras.
I have the honor to address you as a consequence of my visit to Madras on
the last day of February and early in March last, when I had the opportunity
of having interviews with His Excellency the Governor and the Hon'ble Mem-
bers of Council on the subject of inaugurating the Civil Veterinary Depart-
ment, which has been for some years under the consideration of the Right
Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India, who has enjoined the necessity
and expediency of the formation of such a Department.
28th February 1890, with the Hon'ble Mr. Stokes
and Mr. Garstin.
3rd March 1890, with His Excellency the Gov-
ernor of Madras.
2. I have to record my sense of obligation in respect to His Excellency
Lord Connemara, G.C.I.E , and Messrs.
Stokes and Garstin, for having so kindly
accorded me interviews on the dates noted.
3. The subjects which I brought before His Lordship and the Hon'ble
Councillors for consideration were:—
(a) The measures necessary for the establishing of a Civil Veterinary
Department.
(b) The desirability of having a veterinary school and hospital in the
metropolis of Madras for the education of native veterinarians to
be employed in the coming Civil Veterinary Department.
(c) Measures for the repression of cattle plagues which commit havoc,
leading to heavy loss to agriculturists, and consequently more or
less causing revenue to be not easily yielded to the State.
(d) Cattle, pony, and mule-breeding to be fostered and developed.
4. With regard to (a), I would submit that the expediency of establishing
a Civil Veterinary Department in the Madras Presidency is as necessary as it is
being proved in the Punjab satisfactory. The duties of the Department will
consist in matters connected with (b), (c) and (d); and in taking these subjects
into consideration seriatim, I trust my views and suggestions may meet with
the approval of His Excellency the Governor of Madras in Council.
5. Referring to (b). In order to have a staff of veterinarians of sufficient
strength to form a body of practical advisers to district local authorities on the
repressing of cattle plagues, it is necessary to have a school for the. education
of men from the several districts to enable them to become practical cow-
doctors, especially with reference to the detection of ordinary cattle plagues of
India, and diagnosing of the symptoms evidenced in each kind of plague.
Every district should send men to the veterinary school who have a bent
for the care and management of cattle, as unless a student has truly a bent for
the work he will not become a practical cow-doctor. Again, it is necessary
that each district should provide men to be educated and then returned to their
district as practical cow-doctors, because it is well-known that natives of India
have as a rule an objection to leave their own districts; indeed, unless they can
go in family parties, they object to individually settle in other countries, even
neighbouring districts.
These men when educated, and having become certified as practical cow-
doctors, may be employed by district boards as veterinary assistants.
6. Having had the opportunity of visiting the Saidapet Agricultural Col-
lege, to which there is a veterinary hospital attached, where natives have been
educated and issued as stock inspectors to the districts, and having observed
the very small number of patients in the veterinary hospital, and found it
recorded in the report of the Inspector of Cattle Diseases that few cases were