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                      IV.-SUBORDINATE ESTABLISHMENT.

Numbers,
supervision and
work peform-
ed.

146.  Table VII gives the strength of the subordinate establishments as
they stood at the end of the year. Very important progress has been made in
the reorganization of the subordinate Civil Veterinary Department during the
year. It has been made provincial and pensionable in Madras, Bengal and
Eastern Bengal, and a scheme for placing it on the same footing in the Central
Provinces is under consideration. The old system was found in these provin-
ces, now that the importance of dealing with epidemics has been recognised,
to be too slow in developing and to be too inelastic to allow of proper concent-
ration of forces being made. It is obvious that to cope with an epidemic of
rinderpest for instance, extensive preventive inoculations must be made as
soon as possible otherwise it will go on spreading. If we cannot concentrate
a sufficient number of Veterinary Assistants to inoculate the incontact animals
it is not likely that we shall limit spread. The difficulties previously experien-
ced will now to a great extent be obviated. The Department will develop
more rapidly and owing to the establishment being more mobile, the necessary
concentration of forces will, when a sufficient number of Assistants is forth-
coming, be more easily made. In the United Provinces too sanction to the
expansion of the Department has been accorded and the pay of Veterinary
Assistants has been improved. The pay of the establishment has been improved
in the North-West Frontier Province, bringing it into line with the Punjab.

147.  The following table will show at a glance the sanctioned establish-
ment of the various Provinces, the numbers added and the strength at the end
of the year :—

Provinces.

SANCTIONED SCALE.

NO. EMPLOYED
DURING 1907-08.

INCREASE DURING
1907-08.

Deputy Superintendents.

Veterinary Inspectors.

Veterinary Assistants.

Deputy Superintendents.

Veterinary Inspectors.

Veterinary Assistants.

Deputy Superintendents.

Veterinary Inspectors.

Veterinary Assistants.

Punjab ... ... ... ...

...

24

170

...

12

116

...

...

4

North-West Frontier Province ... ...

...

2

26

...

2

20

...

...

6

United Provinces ... ... ...

2

20

210

...

9

96

...

1

17

Bengal ... ... ... ...

9

30

229

...

10

50

...

1

10

Bombay ... ... ... ...

4

24

215

...

...

32

...

...

5

Madras ... ... ... ...

3

15

132

...

1

27

...

1

12

Central Provinces and Berar ... ... ... ...

...

8

120

...

6

65

...

2

5

Burma ... ... ... ...

5

12

120

...

10

90

...

3

18

Eastern Bengal and Assam ... ... ...

2

8

120

...

2

25

...

1

14

Sind, Baluchistan and Rajputana ... ...

...

...

2

...

...

9

...

...

1

IMPERIAL.

Government Cattle Farm, Hissar ... ...

1

...

2

1

...

2

1

...

...

Bacteriological Laboratory ... ...

...

2

6

...

2

4

...

...

...

Veterinary Officer Investigating camel diseases ...

...

...

1

...

...

1

...

...

...

Total ...

26

145

1,353

1

54*

537*

1

9

92

* In addition to this number, 24 were employed during the year on the teaching staff at Veterinary Colleges
and Schools.