3
The practice derived from the treatment of the diseases from which
equine "In" and "Out-door" patients were suffering is a varied one and affords
fair facilities for teaching. Contagious diseases were brought in fair numbers.
The students had an opportunity of seeing cases of Surra in camels, dogs,
cattle and the horse, Cattle plague, Foot and mouth disease, Glanders, Tetanus
and Rabies.
Income and expenditure.
Appendix IV shows receipts and the amount outstanding at close of the
year. The amount paid into the Treasury was Rs. 3,852-15-0,
against Rs. 4,483-8-0 last year, or a decrease of Rs.
630-9-0. There has been an all round slight decrease in the receipts from all
sources. The chief loss has been in fees from paying students from other
provinces which accounts for Rs. 405, out of Rs. 630-9-0 decrease. This class
of students is discouraged as before mentioned. The Rs. 114 decrease in practice
fees was due partly to the fact that we were short-handed and that the Principal
was unable single-handed to devote sufficient attention to the matter in ad-
dition to his other duties. The Professor is in charge of this department and
was removed at the beginning of the busy season. It was possibly also
partially due to the fact that for the first time, for many years, an Army
Veterinary Department man has been actively engaged in private practice,
in Meeán Meer, so that taking this into consideration and also the fact, that
for part of the year regiments, who sent ponies to the College, have been
absent from the station, the amount realized in fees is satisfactory.
The comparison of departmental and treasury receipts on account of
income from Veterinary College, Punjab, has been carried out in my office, and
that the two sets of figures have been found to agree.
The total amount of outstandings on the 31st of March 1902 was Rs.
230-4-0 against Rs. 213 on the corresponding date last year. This is owed by
various persons and is now being realized. The amount booked is Rs. 3,882-3-0
against Rs. 4,547-2-0 last year or a decrease of Rs. 664-15-0.
Appendix V is a statement of the establishment and contingent expen-
diture showing a slight increase of Rs. 395 in the Imperial Revenue owing to the
Professor having been on half pay for a part of last year. There was also an
increase of Rs. 1,088 in the Provincial Revenue owing to the increments given
to the native teaching staff. In regard to the item "Hospital requisites" it
is to be explained that owing to the introduction of the three year's course, some
special devices were introduced for more practical training which accounts for
the increased expenditure under this head. The same explanation may be
accepted as to the item "Country medicines" as more samples for the teaching
of Botany and Materia Medica to the two classes, under the new rules, had to
be purchased. The item "Forge Maintenance" also exhibits a slight increase
which is due to the fact that for training the Nálband Class more charcoal and
iron, with some rise in the rates, was necessary.
General.
The demand for Veterinary Assistants still remains very great, applica-
tions from all sources being numerous. The men sent to
Africa have generally been very well reported on. I am
sorry to record that two of them are reported to have been killed in the action
at Klipdrift. One Veterinary Assistant also died in Uganda. Volunteers
for service in foreign countries are plentiful always when the services of men
are available. Men in private practice are doing well and I think that more of
them will start soon, as they are encouraged by the success of those who have
already done so. I am sorry to find that the terms offered in the Punjab Pro-
vincial Service are so bad, worse even than those in the Transport and in the
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Subordinate Veterinary Department, and
I am afraid the Government cannot expect to secure the services of the best
men which seems a pity considering that they spend money on training them.
The market value must be paid for the services of good men otherwise they
would not accept service, and if the best men be not encouraged to join the sub-
ordinate department the results will not be good.
The Vernacular Veterinary Journal has been kept up and is now issued
monthly instead of quarterly. This was done as the result of constant appeals