( 3 )

Iodine solution injec-
tion.

8. Iodine-injection treatment of rinderpest was continued with
successful results generally in the first and
second stage of the disease. An improved form
of treatment in the more advanced stage of the
disease has been tried but it is only in the experimental stage as yet

Foot and mouth disease.
Table II.

9. One thousand one hundred and eighty-one cases were
reported to have succumbed to this disease as
compared with 1,012 last year. The disease
made its appearance in 34 out of 48 districts
in the province. Hygienic measures and curative method of treat-
ment were adopted, where possible, with beneficial results.

Haemorrhagic Septicae-
mia.
Tables II and III.

10. Deaths reported from this disease numbered 5,513 against
6,738 in the previous year. The disease spread
over the whole of the province except in the
Dehra Dun and Almora districts, from which
no reports were received of its appearance. It was most severe in
the districts of Bulandshahr and Aligarh where the number of deaths
were heavy. Thirty-seven thousand six hundred and forty-seven
inoculations were carried out by serum alone method against 49,543
last year. Besides this, 790 animals were immunised against
haemorrhagic Septicaemia by vaccine at the Government cattle
farms at Madhurikund and Manjhra with satisfactory results.

Blackquartcr.
Tables II and III.

11. Seven hundred and twenty-two cases of deaths were reported
during the year, compared with 1,207 in the
preceding year. Three thousand seven hundred
and fifty-three inoculations were performed
against 11,511 last year.

Anthrax.

Tables II and III.

12. This disease was responsible for 282 deaths during the year,
against 495 in the preceding year. The number
of inoculations carried out was 460 against 386
last year.

Other contagious diseases
Table II.

13. The number of deaths reported was only 151 compared with
439 in the previous year. This head comprises
cow-pox, red-water, pleuro-pneunionia, etc., etc.

                        (c) Other animals.

Table II.

14. One thousand six hundred and sixty cases of deaths were
reported under this head, which includes cases
of rabies, distemper, prioplasmosis, fowl cholera
and other parasitic diseases.

                            CHAPTER III.

            NON-CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

Table V.

15. The number of cases treated at the veterinary hospitals
and dispensaries was 305,215 during the year
compared with 277,312 in the year preceding.
Cases supplied with medicines but not brought to hospitals numbered
42,582 as against 37,714 in the previous year. This shows an all-
round satisfactory increase of work done.