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                            CHAPTER II.

                TREATMENT OF DISEASES.

                        Contagious diseases.

Mortality.
Table H.

4. In the year under review outbreaks of contagious animal
diseases were of a virulent type and the reported
mortality from contagious diseases has been 57,357
as against 37,756 in the previous year.

                                (a) Equine.

Table II.

5. There is a decrease in the number of deaths under this head,
the total being 87 against 196 last year.

Six positive cases of Glanders were detected amongst horses belong-
ing to Balrampur estate in the Gonda district, which were destroyed
and necessary precautionary measures adopted under the Glanders
and Farcy Act.

One case of Anthrax was reported in the Benares district.

There was only one case of Surra and was reported in Saharanpur
disrict.

One case of Dourine was reported in the year in district Gonda.

Seventy-eight cases of deaths from other contagious diseases
were reported as compared with 190 cases in the year preceding.
This head includes piroplasmosis, strangles, tetanus, etc., and the
diseases caused by internal and external parasites.

                                (b) Bovine.

Rinderpest.
Table II.

6. This disease was very severe during the year and the total
number of deaths reported from this was 47,761
as against 25,919 in the last year. The number
swelled to over a thousand in 12 districts and
in the districts of Almora, Cawnpore and Kheri it went over 5,000 in
each. The lowest number of deaths occurred in the Ballia district
where it was only 76. Usual preventive measures were adopted and
inoculations performed so far as possible. A systematized form of
propaganda work is much needed to educate the villagers for the
adoption of simple hygienic measures but it cannot be undertaken
at the present for financial reasons.

Anti-rinderpest inocula-
tions.
Table III.

7. Inoculations were performed in 1,739 outbreaks and the number
rose from 131,532 last year to 173,678 in the
year under review. This figure excludes 663
inoculations carried out at the Government
cattle farms in Muttra and Kheri districts by the serum-simultaneous.
method, as against 144 such inoculations conducted in the preceding
year.

A special feature of this year's serum-simultaneous inoculations
was that unlike previous years " bull virus " was used in place of
"goat virus". Demands for immunisation of cattle with this
method were received from many quarters but owing to restricted,
funds the work could not be taken up.