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            3.—PREVENTIVE INOCULATION.

Anti-Rinderpest Inocula-
tion.

63. Anti-rinderpest inoculations were performed in
493 outbreaks and 88,240 cattle were
inoculated, against 382 outbreaks and
92,856 inoculations in the previous year.

Four hundred and twelve animals died after inoculation.

These were probably in the incubative stage of the disease at

the time of inoculations.

Inoculation against Hæ-
morrhagic Septicæmia.

64. Preventive serum inoculations against Hæmorrhagic
Septicæmia were performed in 413
outbreaks and 81,047 animals were
inoculated as compared with 548 out-
breaks and 130,997 animals during the preceding year.

Preventive vaccinations
against Hæmorrhagic Sep-
cæmia.

65. Vaccinations against Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia
were performed on 182,515 animals in
892 villages of 27 districts against
205,210 animals in 1,200 villages of
28 districts during the previous year. The highest number of
vaccinations was carried out in the Mianwali District. The
volume of work performed by the employment of sera and
vaccine by the Department's staff is very considerable.

Vaccinations against
Black Quarter.

66. Vaccinations were performed on 23,629 animals
in 119 villages of 14 districts against
21,420 animals in 151 villages of 11 dis-
tricts during the previous year.

Inoculation         against

Anthrax

67.    No inoculation was performed during the year
under report as all the affected animals
died before inoculation could take
place.

                  4.—CASTRATION.

68.    Two lakhs, four thousand, six hundred and sixteen
castrations were performed on tour as compared with 187,605
during the previous year. Two lakhs, thirty-one thousand,
nine hundred and forty-five castrations were performed in
the veterinary hospitals against 202,817 in the previous year.
This steady progress is due to the fact that the district veteri-
nary staff realise their responsibility in carrying out castration
work in their respective ilaqas. The Department is doing
most valuable service for the Province by means of its large
scale castration work which forms a regular feature of its
progress in cattle breeding.