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      (iii) that the only sure way of dealing with the situation,
            and at the same time of lasting economic benefit to
      the country, is by making a persistent effort to prevent
      the spread of infection among animals, and thereby
      to secure the control and ultimate eradication of the
      disease.

The success of any measure designed with these objects will depend
upon

      (i) efforts to improve the agency for notification,

      (ii) an increase in numbers of the veterinary personnel of all
            grades consistent with the work which has to be done,

      (iii) improved facilities for the education of the veterinary
            personnel recruited in India in the problems connected
            with the control of epizootic diseases,

      (iv) legislation (see resolution under Subject III a).

SUBJECT II (b).-RINDERPEST. To REVIEW THE EXPERIENCE
      ALREADY GAINED AS TO THE RELATIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE
      "SERUM SIMULTANEOUS" AND "SERUM ALONE" METHODS
      OF INOCULATION IN INDIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

    The Chairman stated that at the first meeting held at Lahore
in 1919 there was a strong feeling among the members that the
simultaneous method might be adopted more generally, and
a resolution which he read was passed to that effect. Since then
Messrs. Pool and Doyle had published a Memoir in which they
indicated the very fleeting immunity conferred by "serum
alone" and they commended the advantages of the simultaneous
method. He believed it would be a great advantage if this method
of inoculation could be performed generally on young animals,
under a year old, before they became very valuable.

    Mr. Quirke said that he had put forward this question in order
to find out what was the experience obtained in the districts with
regard to the simultaneous method. He considered that it was
undoubtedly the better method if it was practicable in the districts.
They were always ready to progress in this direction in his province
if they were sure of the means. In the Punjab it would be
possible to introduce the method at first on the Government farms
but he was not clear as to the efficacy or safety of the method at
present.

    Mr. Hewlett stated that in his considered opinion the wide-
spread use of "serum alone" in combating the disease was fore-