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of Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bulandshahr. Muttra, Banda, Naini Tal, Kheri.
and Gonda. In these districts the disease appeared in a very malignant
form, the death-rate being specially severe in the young stock. Amongst
adults also the disease was of unusual severity, serious mortality occurring
in many villages.
26. Haemorrhagic Septicaemia.—Ihis
year has been a. favourable
one as regards this disease and only 2,674 deaths were reported as
against 4,053 last year. The most serious outbreaks occurred in the
districts of Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh and Bijnor. It has
been observed that this disease generally assumes its most virulent form
as soon as the rains break out, and there is no doubt that during the year
under report, climatic conditions have materially checked the onset of the
disease.
27. Blaclcquarter
(Charbon Symptomatique).—During
the year
under report three hundred and seventy deaths were reported as against
four hundred and four during the previous year. In certain season this
disease causes considerable loss amongst young stock in particular locali-
ties and often reappears periodially in the same village. The black-
quarter aggresin obtained from the Director, Imperial Institute of Vete-
rinary Research, Muktesar, for inoculation was used during the year with
satisfactory results.
2S. Anthrax—This
is reported to have destroyed 1,295 head of
cattle as against 1,879 in the previous year. Entire reliance, however,
cannot be placed on these figures owing to the fact that the disease
usually occurring sporadically is of sudden onset and runs a rapidly
fatal course. It is not usually diagnosed by laymen and is often mistaken
for other disease, such as, snake-bite, poisoning, etc.
29. Other contagious diseases.—During the year under report 631
deaths were reported to have occurred amongst bovines from other con-
tagious diseases as compared with 1,157 deaths in the previous year.
These include the following diseases :—
Pleuro-pneumouia, cow-pox. liver fluke, etc.
30. Contagious diseases amongst other animals.—These
include
rabies, distemper, piroplasmosis, fowl cholera, rinderpest and pneumonia.
A considerable decrease in the mortality was noticed under this head,
the loss being 769 as against 953 in the previous year.
PREVENTIVE INOCULATION.
See table
III.
31. During the year under report the number of inoculations against
rinderpest, haemorrhagic septicaemia and blackquarter rose to 160,765
as against 145,956 of the previous year. This number could be greatly
increased if the department had sufficient funds at the immediate
disposal for the supply of sera, without having to wait for Government
sanctioning extra funds by instalments from time to time.
32: The reduction in the price of rinderpest serum supplied to the
Kumaun division helped a great deal in the inoculations performed and
if it was given a permanent effect by making no difference in the price
of a dose used for a plains animal and that in the hills, the number of
inoculations would go up to a still higher figure. This can be proved
from the bare fact that in Garhwal alone 34,065 animals were inoculated
during the year under report as against 9,774 only in the year 1925-26.