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declared that men who had acted in the appointment of Veterinary
Deputy Superintendents for two or three years could be regarded
as "Veterinary Practitioners" within the meaning of the Act,
in addition to the members of R. C. V. S. But even so, the area
for which each of these officers was responsible was so considerable
that he could not reach the declared case of infection in time. Even
if the Veterinary Practitioner was within reach, he could not find
any means of having the animals shot, for in a country where all
the inhabitants were Buddhists, including the Veterinary Assistants,
it was extremely difficult to get the law enforced. The result was
that it was not uncommon for an animal found to be affected to be
turned out into the jungle rather than shot on account of these
religious prejudices and thus it became a reservoir of infection.
The legislation should be modified so that the animal could be
seized by the police and kept in segregation until it could be declared
free from infection. If an animal was certified to be infected after
a microscopic examination, it should be destroyed by the police.
In the course of the discussion it was pointed out that the rules
which each province was entitled to draw up under the Act should
be made uniform in this respect in each province. He had found
no other trypanosomes in bovines other than what he believed
to be those of surra. He thought that Mr. Fletcher's recommenda-
tion that a small whole-time committee should be appointed to work
upon surra was a sound one.

    Mr. Edwards elaborated the points submitted to the meeting in
his note. He explained the position which had arisen subsequent
to the Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Surra, in
1921, and he reiterated his belief that the problem of surra should
not be attacked alone, but efforts should be made to prosecute its
study as part of the much larger problem of the whole group of
diseases among live-stock in India caused by protozoan parasites,
concerning which our knowledge was lamentably defective as
compared with that existent in other countries upon diseases
of this kind and in view of the economic issues entailed. It
might very likely transpire that the Government of India would
be sorely disappointed with the economic benefits that would
accrue from the labours of a specially appointed body of investi-
gators working for a certain term of years, although from a
philosophical standpoint the information they would be able
to furnish would undoubtedly be of great value. He said this
particularly as he had in mind the analogy of the formidable African
trypanosomiases of man and the domesticated animals. In spite
of the fact that a great deal of very precise knowledge was now
available regarding the parasite, the vectors, and the pathology
of these conditions, no practical results on a large scale had yet been