( 4 )
Farrukhabad, Etawah, Cawnpore, Fatehpur, Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur,
Banda, Benares, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Ballia, Gorakhpur, Naini Tal, and
Hardoi. Prompt action for the segregation of the affected cases was taken
and inoculations were organized with a satisfactory result. Wherever the
district staff was considered insufficient to cope with the disease, additional
men were sent from the headquarters staff to help the district men. In-
oculations were carried out in 43 districts against 36 last year.
See Table III.
25. Foot-and-mouth
disease.—This
was reported from 43 districts
with a mortality of 2,841 animals as compared with 39 districts with
a mortality of 1,161 animals of last year. Young stock, old or weakly
animals are mostly subject to this disease. It is however very trouble-
some to the agricultural community, especially during the ploughing
or harvest time. Where possible, advice and treatment were given and
medicines were distributed free to stock-owners.
26. Haemorrhagic septicaemia.—This
appeared in 42 districts and
3,054 animals are said to have died as against 1,233 of the last year,
The most serious mortality occurred in the districts of Meerut, Buland-
shahr, Aligarh, Mainpuri, Etawah, Cawnpore, Sitapur, and Gonda.
27. Blackquarter.
—Outbreaks of this malady were reported from 16
districts with a total mortality of 190 as against 109 of last year.
28. Anthrax.—During
the year 1,829 cattle were reported to have
succumbed to this disease. Little or rather no reliance can be put to
these figures owing to the fact that the disease, usually occurring sporadi-
cally, is of sudden onset and runs a rapidly fatal course, often before
the veterinary assistant surgeon can reach the seat of outbreak. It is
therefore not likely that all the cases occurring are correctly reported.
29. Other contagious diseases.—Four
hundred and forty-one deaths
were reported to have occurred from other contagious diseases which
included piroplasmosis, pleuro-pneumonia, surra, contagious abortion, etc.
30. Contagious diseases amongst other animals.—During
the year
under review 1,616 deaths are reported to have occurred from various
ailments, such as fowl cholera, rabies, distemper, piroplasmosis, pleuro-
pneumonia, surra, etc.
PREVENTIVE INOCULATION.
See Table III.
31. During the year under report 65,108 inoculations and vaccinations
have been carried out, chiefly against rinderpest, although haemorrhagic
septicaemia and blackquarter have also been treated by these methods.
This work, however, had been seriously handicapped owing to the temporary
suspension of serum supply from the Muktesar Laboratory during the
month of September, 1924, due to shortage of funds for the purchase
of sera, when the demand from the districts was heavy. The Government
was approached for further funds for purchase and the supply was renewed
during the second week of October, 1924. In most tracts this method of
dealing with rinderpest and other maladies has now come to be looked
upon with favour by cattle owners, who regard it as the only satisfactory
measure to be adopted for the control of contagious diseases. In view
of the temporary suspension of the supply of material, however, all
members of the veterinary staff were directed that in outbreaks where no
serum was available special measures were to be taken for the prevention
of the spread of the diseases by means of segregation and strict attention