REVENUE DEPARTMENT
AGRICULTURE.
CALCUTTA, THE 12TH AUGUST 1911.
RESOLUTION-NO.
2501 Agri.
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The Annual Reports of the Veterinary College and of the Civil Veterinary Department,
Bengal, for the year 1910-11.
COLONEL RAYMOND was Principal of the Bengal Veterinary College
and Mr. Quinlan was Superintendent of the Civil Veterinary Department
throughout the year. Mr. P. J. Kerr, I.C.V.D., joined for training on the 22nd
January 1911.
2. Bengal Veterinary College.—The number of students on the college roll
at the beginning of the session was 176, but the actual number in the classes at
the end of the session was 138. Of these, 38 came from Bengal, 15 from
Bihar, 5 from Orissa, 67 from Eastern Bengal and Assam and 13 from other
provinces. The results of the final examination were satisfactory, the per-
centage of passes being 76. The conduct and general health of the students
were good. The Principal reports that the students' private sick bay which
was opened last year hus been useful and is appreciated. A curator and libra-
rian has been appointed for the museum attached to the college. The usual
nursing class for Army Transport drivers was held during the vacation and
was attended by eight men who were found competent at the end of their
course.
3. College Hospital.—During the year under report 5,869 cases were
treated as compared with 5,680 during the previous year, showing an increase
of 189, These figures do not include 4,000 hackney-carriage horses which were
examined for the Calcutta Corporation. The number of animals sent for
treatment to the college hospital in connection with cruelty cases was
very small.
4. The administration of the Glanders and Farcy Act in Calcutta
and its neighbourhood was conducted smoothly and efficiently under the
supervision of Colonel Raymond. During the year 4,025 stables containing
about 16,000 horses were inspected and glanders was detected in 34 stables as
against 51 in the preceding year. The total number of horses admitted into
the contagious diseases hospital was 303, including 7 horses which were under
observation at the close of the preceding year. Of these, 57 were destroyed,
10 died in hospital and 230 were discharged as free from glanders, and
6 remained under observation at the close of the year. A sum of Rs. 245-5-4
was paid as compensation for the destruction of animals under the Glanders
and Farcy Act in the area under the supervision of Colonel Raymond. There
was no friction with the people. The management of outbreaks of all epizootic
diseases undertaken by Colonel Raymond with the sanction of the Ualcutta
Corporation has borne excellent results. Special provision was made for
the inspection of cattle belonging to private milk-vendors. Rinderpest was
prevalent in Calcutta and the suburbs during the year ; and foot-and-mouth
disease appeared in several parts of Calcutta and in the Howrah and Garden
Reach municipal areas. Prompt assistance was rendered in all these out-
breaks. In Calcutta and the suburbs 2,276 cattle were inoculated against
rinderpest.
5. Raymond Research Laboratory,—This institution continued to do
excellent work in the diagnosis of contagious and obscure diseases in cases
admitted into the hospital and from materials sent by veterinary officers from
the mufassal. The laboratory has now been fitted with an electric installation
and with up-to-date instruments. Two veterinary graduates from the Civil