GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

              ANNUAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT

                                                                   OF THE

        CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT IN INDIA

                                                   FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR

                                   1904-1905.

                              GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

In Preface.

This report is the first which has been submitted on the present lines.
accordance with the recommendations of the Horse and Mule Breeding Com-
mission, certain selected districts were handed over to the Army Remount De-
partment and we have been relieved of all responsibility and control of military
stallions in those districts. It was also decided by the Government of India
that all diseases of soliped animals occurring in them should be dealt with by that
Department. These districts have been coloured dark red in the map which
accompanies this report, those under the management of the Civil Veterinary
Department have been shown in light red and Veterinary Colleges and Schools,
Cattle Farms, etc., are indicated by numbers.

2.But, while all matters connected with horse and mule breeding and the
care of equine stock in selected districts have been removed, the Civil Veterinary
Department retain control of the cattle breeding and disease and the treatment
of other animals in villages and dispensaries. Thus, the operations of the
Department extend over the whole of India, with the exception of the Native
States, which have been shown white on the map.

3.The forms of tables which accompany this report are now brought into
use for the first time. Being new and having been issued late in the year,
they have not been furnished in as complete a manner as one would wish : but, it
is hoped that by next year they will be more accurately rendered.

Officers in
charge.

The following table gives the names of the officers who held the several
appointments in the Civil Veterinary Department during the year under
report:—

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