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pharmacy has been entirely refitted. The Professor of Sanitary Science has
been provided with a new lecture room, office and laboratory on a site adjoin-
ing the segregation ward, so that the whole of the contagious disease work can
be kept in one place. Six more stables and a new dead-house for the segre-
gation ward have been sanctioned, and will shortly be erected. Sanction has
also been given to the erection of more dog kennels, a large Anatomical room
and a Hostel. These latter buildings are only awaiting the acquisition of
sites by the district officers. Both are very urgently required as we shall be
unable to accommodate our dissection classes if the anatomical rooms are not
completed by October. The Hostel will be a great boon to students who find it
yearly increasingly difficult to find accommodation, and are exposed to unhealthy
surroundings in cramped rooms in the city.
Segregation ward.
Appendix F.
23. As has already been said, a very great improvement has been effected
by providing class rooms and a laboratory in connection
with the segregation ward. These were only handed over to
us in December 1905, and Captain Baldrey, the Professor of Sanitary Science, has
now got them equipped with necessary apparatus, &c., for teaching purposes. I
cannot too strongly emphasize the great importance of making the teaching of
contagious disease as practical as possible. It is these cattle plagues which
really do cause enormous damage and loss to the people and to Government,
and it is chiefly for the purpose of dealing with them that our Veterinary Assis-
tants are required in the districts. Anything which will improve the teaching
in this direction, therefore, is very welcome. I think that, when the few-
buildings already sanctioned have been put up and the staff which has been
sanctioned has been completed, we shall be able to do very little more to render
the teaching of contagious disease more practical, and we may, I think, confidently
look forward to a very considerable improvement in this direction next year.
In conjunction with the teaching work a good deal of clinical diagnosis has
been carried out and some investigations made as well. Work has been con-
tinued on Dourine and Camel Surra. Captain Baldrey has found coccidiosis to
be a common disease, and is investigating some sheep diseases such as Gillar,
Juvi and Chichree-ki'bimari. I have submitted notes on Filaria and Dourine in
the districts, and in conjunction with Captain Baldrey, a note on horse pox ;
whilst he has issued a preliminary note on white scour and another on
Chichree-ki-bimari. Appendix F. will give some idea of the scope of the
investigation work done.
Post Graduate's course.
24. I was consulted during the year as to the possibility of carrying out
a post Graduate's course for men destined to be Veterinary
Inspectors, and although cordially agreeing that all such
men should have such a course of training, I was obliged to refuse as we have
not sufficient room to give them any laboratory training, nor has the Professor of
Sanitary Science sufficient time to devote to them at present.
Demand for Veterinary
Assistants.
25. The demand for Veterinary Graduates has been very great during
the year. There were 91 unmet applications for men before
the annual examination this year, and the greater number
of them are still unmet. I am afraid that the Punjab secured but few men as
the terms are not as good as in other Provinces and departments. This is, how-
ever, I understand, likely to be remedied shortly, and no doubt good men will
then readily take employment in the Province. As I said last year, we are
making special efforts to meet the demand, and in place of the 250 promised
last year, have now 278 men in training. It is hoped that this number may be
gradually reduced as the demand may decline, as the classes are very large and
difficult to handle, and the work entailed by imparting technical knowledge to
so large a class, each individual of which needs personal treatment, is very heavy
indeed.
Work of the staff.
26. I am very glad to be able to report that the work done by the whole
of the staff during the year under report has been, as usual,
excellent. All the old teachers have always taken a pride
in the College and done their best to keep up, and if possible, increase the good
name which the institution has earned in the past. I am glad to find that in
our new teachers also we have received a great increase of strength. Captain