Report on the Punjab Veterinary College
for the year 1918-19
BY COLONEL H. T. PEASE, C.I.E., PRINCIPAL.
Staff.
1. I was in charge of the College during the year and carried out the
duties of Professor of Sanitary Science in addi-
tion to my own. This is the fifth year during
which this extra work has fallen to my share. Mr. W. Taylor occupied the
chair of Pathology and Parasitology and remained in charge of the small
animals clinic. Mr. E. Burke, I. S. O., was Professor of Surgery. Khan
Bahadur Syad Mahtab Shah, Gilani, was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
Khan Sahib Syed Sardar Shah, Gilani, was Professor of Cattle Pathology.
Khan Sahib Ghulam Hussain Khan, House Surgeon, retired from the service,
on the 1st of October 1918, and Ghulam Rasul Khan, who had been officiating
for him, was confirmed in the appointment. Sheikh Fakir Ali, Assistant to
the Professor of Sanitary Science, who is the senior Assistant Professor, was
promoted to the grade Rs. 150—10—200 per mensem. Veterinary Graduate
Durga Das was transferred from the Punjab Veterinary Department to fill
the Post of Assistant Professor. Hardit Singh, B. Sc., has been appointed,
Second Demonstrator of Anatomy from the 19th November 1918. We were
working very short-handed, during the year, there being 2 European Imperial
Officers and four Assistants short in the establishment most of the time.
Admission of students and classes.
2. The Summer Session commenced on the 1st May and closed on the
30th June 1918. The Winter Session com-
menced on 1st October 1918 and closed at the
end of March 1919.
For the three-years' course 52 new students were admitted in 1918,
but two sowars did not join, 2 State students and two from other provinces
left, so that 46 completed the first year's training. There were 55 students
in the second year class at the beginning of the year 1918. Two died of In-
fluenza, 3 were kept back, and two were struck off for absence without leave,
so that 48 completed the year. There were 45 students in the 3rd year's class
in 1918, one was remanded for ill health and 44 remained.
In the four-years' course 26 were admitted in April 1918. There
were 24 in the Second Year in 1918, but one having accepted service in the
Army Remount Department was transferred to the three-years'! course. There
were 21 students in the third year's class of this course in 1918. Owing to
the students of the four-years' class of this course having volunteered for
active Military Service there was no special four-years' class this year.
The students admitted on the 1st May 1919 came from :—
Indian Cavalry
...
Remount Department
Imperial Service Troops
State nominees ...
Central Provinces and Berar
...
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...
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United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Baluchistan ...
District Boards, Punjab
Punjab Civil students
...
...
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28
8
3
7
5
4
2
6
18
81
3-years' clases,
4-years' class.
Of the Punjab students one was a Matriculate, 8 Entrance failed.
The remainder had certificates of the 4th high or Anglo-Vernacular Middle
School certificates. The Military students are now selected by the Quarter-
Master-General, in India, from among candidates in the Indian Cavalry and
are trained for the new Indian Veterinary Department. More care is con-
sequently taken to select candidates with higher educational qualifications, and
the improved pay, rank and conditions of service have induced better men to
seek admission. Owing to the war and to the absence of the Post-Graduate
professor on Military duty, the Post-Graduate Course was in abeyance.