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37. Cuttack.—The Chairman of the District Board of Cuttack reports
that the dispensary was opened in October 1898 at Ranihat in Cuttack town with
the aid of private donations and subscriptions in addition to the Board's contri-
bution of Rs. 480 a year. The total receipts on account of the dispensary for
the year under report amount to Rs. 819, and the total expenditure amounts to
Rs. 825, as shown in Appendix XV, but it is not understood where the excess
expenditure of Rs. 6 came from.
Animals are treated as out-patients in the dispensary, and the Veterinary
Assistant attends subscribers' houses to treat sick animals without any charge.
If any non-subscribers require the services of the Veterinary Assistant, the
following rates of fees have been fixed :—
First 4 visits at...
From 5 to 7 visits
at...
„ 8 to upward visits at
...
...
...
...
...
...
Rs.
1
0
0
A.
0 each.
12 „
8 „
Besides this, the Chairman reports that the Veterinary Assistant has to go on
tour to treat cattle disease, and has recently been directed to perform post-mortem
examinations of cattle-poisoning cases, and to see that the horses of hackney
carriages and cart bullocks are not used when unfit for work.
The total number of cases treated during the year under report was 1,894,
of which 572 were cured, 743 relieved, and 579 died. (Appendix XIV),
38. Tippera.—The Chairman of the District Board reports that during the
year under report Veterinary Assistant Nogendra Nath Sur, who is in charge
of the dispensary, was employed in treating sick animals in the district.
He visited 51 villages and treated 254 animals, of which 236 were cured,
4 relieved, and 14 died. (Appendix XIV). The nature of the work clone by
him was quite satisfactory, and public opinion does not appear to be against
him.
One of the lecturers visited this dispensary in March, who reports that
the dispensary consists of a small tattie structure and is situate in the compound
of the District Board's office. It is not at all conspicuous, as it has no distinct
gateway leading to it, besides which there is no sign-board to indicate its
existence. In the immediate vicinity of the dispensary there is enough space
where a small structure could be put up for the Veterinary Assistant to live in,
but there is no space for anything like a hospital. The Veterinary Assistant gets
no quarters nor is he allowed house allowance. He has occupied two thirds
of the dispensary as a residence, without the permission of the District Board,
and one-third has been partitioned off for the dispensary purposes. In this
limited space there are three cupboards in which drugs, instruments, and pharma-
ceutical appliances are irregularly and badly kept. The supply of drugs is
adequate, but they are all English, and can be substituted by cheaper Indian
drugs with advantage.
39. Dumka and Kanti.—Veterinary
dispensaries have recently been
opened at Dumka by the Subdivisional Officer, and at Kanti by Mr. G. R.
Toomey, of Kanti Indigo Concern, but they are in too young a state to make
any report upon this year.
40. Burdwan.—The Chairman of the District Board, Burdwan, reports
that the dispensary was opened in the middle of October 1898, and a passed
student of the Rajputana Veterinary School at Ajmere was appointed on a
fixed pay of Rs. 50 per mensem, inclusive of all allowances. A ehaprasi on
Rs. 6 a month was allowed to him. The dispensary has been opened, and is
being held in one of the rooms in the cutcherry compound, which were,
previous to the construction of the new Magistrate's Court, used as hajat and
mallchana, the said room being kindly lent by the Magistrate for the purpose,
until the Board is in a position to make other arrangements for the location of
the dispensary. This institution has been furnished with the necessary
instruments and a stock of medicines sufficient for its present requirements.
The Veterinary Assistant attends the dispensary while he remains at the Sadar,
and treats sick animals that are brought there between 7 and 10 A.M., free of
charge. Besides, he is permitted to visit animals, if desired by their owners,
elsewhere than at the dispensary, in which case his fee is Re. 1 for each
visit.
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