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December 15, 1930, when he proceeded on leave on average pay for
a month preparatory to retirement on superannuation pension. During
this time he toured for 84 days, visiting six districts, four stallion stands
and twenty-two veterinary dispensaries. He travelled 5,250 miles by
rail and 395 miles by road.
7. M. Tahir Mirza, Officiating Deputy Superintendent, took
charge of the Jhansi sub-division on the afternoon of December 15,
1930, and continued till the end of the year. He was 41 days on tour,
travelling 1,055 miles by rail and 353 miles by road. With a view to
give a stimulus to veterinary activities in his jurisdiction and for pro-
pagating the cause of the department he has started a veterinary club
at Jhansi under the presidentship of Major C. Davenport, R. A. V. C.
8. M. Muhammad Ishaq Khan, officiated as Deputy Superinten-
dent, Basti, for the whole of the year under review. He spent 168
clays on tour, travelling 4,825 miles by rail and 1,402 miles by road.
He inspected 25 veterinary dispensaries and also checked the work
of one itinerating veterinary assistant surgeon in his sub-division.
CHAPTER II.
TREATMENT OF DISEASES.
Contaqious Diseases.
Mortality.
Table II.
9. During the year under report cattle epidemics were of a lesser
virulent type than in the previous year, and the
total number of deaths came to 37,756 as com-
pared with 48,331 in the year preceding.
(a) Equine.
Table II.
10. The death roll under this head showed an increase, being 106
against 61 in the previous year.
Glanders and Farcy.
11. Six positive cases of glanders were detected during the year,
four at Allahabad and two at Gorakhpur. All
the animals were from the Mounted Police Force
Lines and had to be destroyed, and precautionary measures. required
to be taken under the Glanders and Farcy Act, were taken.
Anthrax.
12. No case of this disease was reported.
Surra.
13. No case of surra was discovered during
the year.
Dourine.
14. Dourine was not known to have made its
appearance in the year.
Other contagious dis
eases.
15. One hundred and ninety cases of deaths were reported under
this head as against 58 last year. These include
cases of strangles, piroplasmosis, biliary fever.
influenza, etc.
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(b) Bovine.
Rinderpest.
Table II.
16 The disease was of a virulent type during the year, but was
milder as compared with the previous year, the
death roll for the year being 25,919 against 35,845
in the last year. The number went up to more than a thousand in
7 districts, over a hundred in 32 and below that figure in 9 districts.
The highest toil had to be paid by Gorakhpur district, where the num-
ber rose to 2,049, and the lowest was in Dehra Pun where it was only
10. The villagers are explained about the adoption of simple measures
with a view to avert, as much as possible, the spread of contagious
diseases amongst animals, but propaganda work on more proper lines
can have better results which cannot unfortunately be organized for
want of funds.
Anti-rinderpest ino-
culations.
Table III.
17. The number of inoculations carried out was 131,532 as
against 157,677 in the preceding year. The
decrease in the number was due to lesser severity
of epidemic during the year than in the past, but it
could have been a little higher if lesser time were occupied in obtaining
supplies of serum from Muktesar. Besides this, 144 inoculations by the
serum simultaneous method were performed in the Agricultural Institute
at Naini (district Allahabad), which proved satisfactory.
Iodine solution in-
jection.
18. Treatment of rinderpest by iodine injection method, which
was introduced last year, is in progress and is
proving useful to the cattle-owners.
Foot-and-mouth disease
Table II.
19. Cases of foot-and-mouth disease that are reported to have suc-
cumbed during the year numbered 1,612 against
2.248 in the previous year. The disease made its
appearance throughout the province, with the
exception of four districts only, viz., Etawah, Jalaun, Lucknow, and
Unao. So far as possible curative method of treatment, coupled with
hygienic measures adopted, had beneficial results.
Hæmorrhagic
Sep-
ticæmia.
Table II.
20. Six thousand, seven hundred and thirty-eight cases of deaths
are reported to have occurred compared with
7.884 during the last year. The disease spread
over 43 districts in the province excepting Dehra
Dun. Pilibhit, Jhansi, Hamirpnr, and Garhwal. It was severe in the
districts of Bulandshahr, Cawnpore, Sitapur, Kheri, and Bara Banki,
and was most severe in the district of Kheri, where the number of deaths
was the highest.
Inoculation.
Table III
Forty-nine thousand, five hundred and forty-three inoculations were
carried out during the year compared with 55,635
in the previous year.
Blackquater.
Tables II and III.
21. The disease was more virulent during the year than in the
past, the number of deaths reported being 1,207
against 529 in the year preceding. Eleven thou-
sand five hundred and eleven inoculations were performed by serum.
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alone or serum aggressin methods as against 5,708 done in the preced-
ing year.
Anthrax.
Tables II and III.
22. The disease made its appearance in 23 districts against 19
last year. The death roll numbered 495 com-
pared with 288 in the previous year. Three
hundred and eighty-six inoculations could be made during the year.
The disease runs a sporadic and such a sudden course that preventive
measures are difficult without receipt of very prompt reports about its
occurrence.
Other contagious dis-
eases.
Table II.
23. Four hundred and thirty-nine cases of deaths were reported
under this head compared with 178 last year.
They comprise cow-pox, pleuro-pnennionia, liver
fluke, etc.
(c) Other animals.
Table II.
24. One thousand one hundred and fifty animals are reported to
have died other than the equines and bovines.
They include cases of distemper, piroplasmosis,
fowl cholera, rabies and other parasitic diseases.
CHAPTER III.
NON-CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Non-contagious disea-
ses.
Table V.
25. The number of cases treated at veterinary hospitals and dis-
pensaries was 2,77,312 against 2,55,728 in the pre-
vious year. Thirty-seven thousand seven hun-
dred and fourteen cases were supplied with
medicines but not brought to veterinary hospitals compared with 40,112
last year. The total number indicates a fair increase of work done in
this direction.
Tables IV and V.
26. Eighty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-two cases
were treated by veterinary assistant surgeons
while on tour in the interior of villages which
gave relief to the rural population. The number of castratious carried
out in the year under review, for which special attention was paid, rose
to 16,530 against 3,247 in the preceding year. This large increase gives
a favourable impression of the hard work done by the staff, and the
highest number has been achieved by Veterinary Assistant Surgeon M.
Mustaq Husain of Colonelganj, district Gonda. who alone did l,127
castrations. The Allahabad Circle in general is chiefly responsible
for the high increase for which the Superintendent desenves congra-
tulations.
Cattle poi oning.
27. Fifteen cases of cattle poisoning were reported during the
year from six districts and were dealt with ac-
cordingly.
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CHAPTER IV.
VETERINARY HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
Veterinary hospitals
and dispensaries.
Table V.
28. The year opened with 165 veterinary hospitals and dispen-
saries. During the course of the year the Aligarh
District Board reduced two out of six veterinary
dispensaries in the district on grounds of financial
stringency. An adidtion of three has been
made by re-establishing the Sadar Veterinary Hospital at Mirza-
pur by starting a new hospital at Pauri (district Garhwal) and
by converting the touring dispensary at Nanpara (district Bahraich)
into a stationary one. A veterinary dispensary at Singhai (district
Kheri) was started during the year, but for want of funds the
District Board closed it down before the year ended. The total number
of veterinary hospitals and dispensaries at the end of the year has,
therefore, been 166.
Grants-in-aid
for
construction of veteri-
nary hospitals.
29. A sum of Rs. 18,994 was contributed to District Boards of
Pilibhit, Almora, Garhwal and Shahjahanpur for
construction of veterinary hospitals or buildings
in connexion therewith. The Almora District
Board has been paid Rs. 11,200 for construction of a veterinary hospital
at Ranikhet, but the question of half-and-half basis has been waived
in their case as the Board was not in a position to pay a moiety of the
cost of the buildings from their own resources. A sum of Rs. 3,714 has
likewise been contributed to the District Board of Garhwal for construc-
tion of servants' quarters for the veterinary hospital.
CHAPTER V.
LABORATORIES.
Laboratory work.
30. Three hundred and fifty-eight smears were examined at the
headquarters and Circle laboratories during the
year. In addition to these a number of patho-
logical, helminthological, and entomological materials were also received
and examined. The smears examined were from different species, viz.,
equine. bovine, canine, ovine, caprine, avian, chital and tiger, and the
result of the examinations is indicated as under :—
Positure.
123
Negative.
235
Total..
858
Anti-rabic treatment.
31. A limited number of cases were treated with anti-rabic vaccine
at the Isolation Ward attached to the headquarters
laboratory with satisfactory results so far.
Experiments and in-
vestigations on diseases.
32. Experiments were made on canine piroplasmosis which is at-
tributable to two different kinds of piroplasms,
viz., babesia canis and piroplasma gibsoni. Ex-
periments on Barsati were also carried out with a view to find out a
specific for this disease which is not amenable to any known chemo-
therapeutic agent, and it was found that Tartar Emetic and Bayor 205,
on introduction into the blood stream, has a beneficial effect on the
course of the disease.
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Investigations and experiments on Liver Flukes were carried out
during the year. Six villages in Meerut district were affected with this
disease. The villages affected were mostly water-logged areas. Treat-
ment by administration of Carbon Tetra Chloride gave very satisfactory
results, and the experiments proved that it is a specific for this disease
It is gratifying to note that the villagers have great faith in this treat-
ment and report voluntarily the incidence of the disease immediately
on its occurrence.
83. Four hundred and twelve cases were treated at the headquar-
ters against 389 last year. A sum of Rs. 940 was reali7ed as fees, com-
pared with Rs. 756 in the year preceding. Most of the cases treated
were of exceptional interest, and some were of obscure nature.
CHAPTER VI.
BREEDING OPERATIONS.
(i) Horse and Pony Stallions.
Table X.
34. At the commencement of the year there were 61 stallions be-
longing to the department for horse-breeding in
the province, excepting the four districts of
Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr, and Aligarh known as the select-
ed districts under the Army Remount department. Four stallions
were purchased during the year, five were destroyed being old or unfit
for further stud purposes, and four died, leaving a balance of 56 at the
end of the year.
Table XI,
35. Fifty-four stallions were employed at stud during the year and
the number of coverings they performed was 1,061
against 2,193 in the previous year. The decrease
in the number is attributable to people not taking sufficient interest in
the horse-breeding industry.
36. During the year under report a new stallion stand has been
opened at Sarai Dadomir (district Bijnor) by M. Amin Chand, Zamin-
dar, who bears all the maintenance charges himself. A new stallion
stand has also been opened at Balrampur, district Gonda, and a
thorough-bred English stallion has been stationed there.
The question of opening a stand at Mirzapur was decided by the
District Board, but it could not be brought into effect for want of proper
stabling arrangements during the year. The stallion stand in Bara
Banki district has been held up in suspense since the sudden death of
an Arab stallion in July, 1930. The stand at Azamgarh has been closed
after the death of an Arab stallion located there on September 19, 1930
as the Board, despite repeated representations, declined to maintain
the stand on grounds of shortage of funds.
The Gunnaur stallion stand (district Budaun) could not be re-opened
during the year owing to the sudden death of the newly-selected Darin-
dah who completed the stables for Government stallions.
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37. It is pleasing to note that the progeny of Government stallions
is continuing to show improvement.
Stallion dépôt.
38. Good work has been done at the stallion depot, Moradabad.
which is intended for affording rest or treatment
to the stallions which they need after con-
tinued standing at stud in districts. New stallions are also kept there
for training in their work before being sent for stud purposes.
(ii) Donkey stallions.
39. There were 13 jack donkeys during the year, and there was
neither any new purchase nor casualty among them.
40. Ten donkeys were at stud work, and their performances num-
bered 244 against 243 last year. The average worked to 24.4 per
animal.
CHAPTER VII.
FAIRS AND SHOWS.
Fairs and Shows.
41. A number of cattle and horse fairs and shows was held in the
province. In the Batesar Fair, district Agra,
and in the District Horse Show, Muttra, Mr.
T. S. Davies took part in the judging of animals for prizes. Veterinary
exhibits were sent to the Batesar Fair and Etawah District Exhibition.
At the Dewa Fair (Bara Banki) and Dadri Fair (Ballia) Khan Bahadur
Sheikh Niaz Muhammad acted as a member of the judging committee,
and he presided over the prize distribution at Kulkula Fair (district
Gorakhpur). The District Board, Bara Banki, deputed their district
veterinary staff to the Dewa Fair during the year. but the Board did
not co-operate by sending a touring veterinary dispensary to the fair
and insisted on an undertaking to meet the travelling allow-
ances that may be necessary in that connexion. The checking of cattle
disease among animals brought to the fair was. however, managed by
the headquarters staff who were specially deputed to the fair.
Great interest was created by the display of veterinary exhibits sent
to Dewa Fair which attracted a large crowd of visitors. Besides these.
there were several other fairs and shows in different districts which were
organized with the help of the staff of this department who treated sick
animals and took precautionary measures against an outbreak of cattle
disease among animals brought to the fairs. They were also of great
assistance in the distribution of prizes to animals that competed at the
fairs.
42. The Allahabad Agricultural Association formed a mobile ex-
hibition during the year in which they arranged educating villagers in
veterinary aid through lectures delivered by the district veterinary
staff. The Association is further endeavouring, through the teachers of
Vernacular schools, with the help of printed leaflets to popularize
inoculation among the rural population.
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CHAPTER VIII.
PROPAGANDA.
Propaganda.
48. Propaganda work by means of demonstrative lectures and
distribution of pamphlets in vernacular on com-
mon contagious diseases of animals in India with
elementary instructions about suppression of diseases and care of
animals, etc., were carried out at the fairs and shows which appeared to
have some effect on the stock-owners. Lectures on cattle-farming and
the means of combating an outbreak of cattle disease were delivered at
the Kulkula and Debi Patan Fairs, where the advantages of scientific
veterinary aid in successfully carrying out agricultural operations were
also explained. Much more is needed for propaganda on proper lines,
but the question of suitable materials and staff, for which funds are
necessary, stands in the way of progress.
CHAPTER IX.
ESTABLISHMENT.
Establishment.
Table VII.
44. The subordinate staff of the department, as it stood at the
end of the year, was as follows :—
Veterinary inspectors ..
..
..
..
Veterinary overseers .. .. .. .. ..
Veterinary assistant surgeon in charge of Laboratory and Isolation
Wards
..
..
..
..
Veterinary assistant surgeons attached to headquarters and on
foreign service in India
..
..
..
..
Veterinary assistant surgeons employed in districts (including one
in the Agricultural Farm, Cawnpore) .. .. ..
Total ..
16
2
1
20
173
212
Casualty
amongst
staff.
45. There were three cases of deaths amongst the subordinate
staff and two of retirement on superannuation
pension during the year.
Foreign scholarships.
46. No foreign scholarship has been awarded for veterinary train-
ing abroad. One of the six State scholars, who were
receiving education in the United Kingdom, passed
the M.R.C.V.S. course creditably from the Royal (Dick) College, Edin-
burgh, and has returned to India.
Indian scholarships.
47. Thirteen stipendiary students were selected for training, seven
of whom were sent to the Bengal Veterinary Col-
lege and six to the newly-started College at Patna.
Out of the nine students who actually joined the Bengal Veterinary
College last year seven passed and two failed in the first annual exam-
ination. Of the five who were already in the College two qualified in
the final examination, who got appointments in the department and
three were promoted to the final year class.
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Tours of veterinary
inspectors.
48. The veterinary inspectors toured at an average of 187 days per
man during the year, travelling 28,861 miles by
rail and 16,983 by road at an aggregate figure.
They inspected 2,262 villages in the course of their tours.
Lecture
on cattle
disease to
different
schools.
49. Instructive lectures on the common ailments of domesticated
animals, their causes, treatment, etc. were
delivered by the staff of the department during the
course of their tours as enumerated below :—
(1) Agricultural classes in Vernacular Middle Schools—
27 districts—44 schools—108 lectures.
(2) Adult night schools—
3 districts—11 schools—19 lectures.
(3) Patwari schools—
24 districts—25 schools—50 lectures.
(4) Patwaris collected on pay days—
3 districts—7 lectures.
(5) Agricultural school at Bulandshahr—
78 lectures.
(6) Agriculture class at Nagina—
11 lectures.
The number of lectures to patwaris collected on pay days could have-
been much larger, but as it generally entailed travelling allowance
charges of veterinary assistant surgeons on the different Boards the
practice had to be suspended for the present. This branch of the work
has, during recent years, been taken up by the department as an addi-
tional duty which is progressing satisfactorily and has proved to be of an
educative value to the rural population.
CHAPTER X.
EXPENDITURE.
Expenditure.
Table XIVA.
50. The total cost of the department during the year under report
was Rs. 5,32,852 against Rs. 5,39,025 in the pre-
vious year. Receipts for the year were
Rs. 3,11,146 and the net cost was Rs. 4,21,706.
CHAPTER XI.
GENERAL REMARKS.
51. Major W. H. Priston was on deputation duty in the Central
Provinces, where he acted as the Director of Veterinary Services from
the beginning of the year until December 12, 1930, when he proceeded
on leave preparatory to retirement on proportionate pension.
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52. My thanks are due to Khun Bahadur Sheikh Niaz Muham-
mad and Mr. T. S. Davies, Superintendents, Allahabad and Agra
Circles, respectively, for the good work they have carried out during the
year; also to my deputy superintendents and veterinary inspectors.
53. A scheme was drawn up and approved by Government for the
reporting of cattle diseases by village chaukidars as an experimental
measure and was to be tried in the districts of Gorakhpur, Cawnpore
and Budaun, but as no funds could be provided the scheme had to be
shelved until funds are available.
54. A scheme for the organization of veterinary aid in rural areas
was submitted to Government, but as it involved the question of making
the Municipal Boards pay for veterinary aid which they receive within
municipal areas the scheme has not as yet received Government sanc-
tion.
55. I should like to bring to the notice of Government the name of
Rai Bahadur Chaudhri Gur Narain, who proposes to hand over property
to a trust from the income of which a veterinary hospital should be
maintained at Mahewa (district Etawah) ; also to Chaudhri Badan Singh,
Rais of Takha, district Etawah, who has, at his own expense, built a
veterinary hospital and has proposed to give landed property to meet the
running charges of the institution.
56. Experiments were carried out at the Allahabad Agricultural
Institute Farm against tuberculosis and Jolne's disease with satisfac-
tory results. Also the herds were inoculated with serum simultaneous
method.
57. A veterinary inspector. who has had special training in the
work, has been appointed on that branch of work, and it is hoped in the
near future that this method will be carried out on a much larger scale
as has been recommended by the Royal Commission on Agriculture.
58. Treatment of rinderpest by Kaolin and Iodine methods has been
tried, but it is too early to come to any definite conclusion.
59. Seven sanads were awarded during the year to the following
gentlemen for the great help they rendered to the department :—
(1) Babu Chokhey Lal, Patwari, village Jatoi. tahsil Hathras,
district Aligarh ;
(2) Bubu Badri Pershad, Supervisor, Co-operative Society, vil-
lage Basrihar, district Etawah;
(3) Chaubey Jagdesh Rao, Rais of village Hardoi, district
Etawah;
(4) Babu Raja Ram, Patwari, village Amraudha, district Cawn-
pore ;
(5) Babu Ram Bharosay, Patwari, village Atrauli, Sheikh, dis-
trict Cawnpore;
(6) Hafiz Muhammad Qasim, Patwari, circle Jalalabad, district
Shahjahanpur; and
(7) Thakur Zalim Singh, of village Malwa Akbelpnr, tahsil
Bilgram, district Hardoi.
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60. It may be noted that all-round increase has been effected in
the work of the department which shows that good work has been done
by its small personnel.
61. The work of both the technical and clerical staff has been most
satisfactory during the year., and I should specially like to bring to the
notice of Government the names of the following officers:—
(1) My head assistant, Babu Satya Kumar Mukerjee,
(2) My head clerk, Babu Bam Pershad,
(3) Deputy Superintendent, Basti, M. Muhammad Ishaq Khan,
(4) Veterinary inspector, S. Udam Singh and
(5) Veterinary Assistant Surgeon, Sitapur, M. Ghafur-ur-Rah-
man Khan.
S. G. M. HICKEY, CAPTAIN, I.C.S.,
Director, Civil Veterinary department,
United Provinces.