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(iii) OTHER ANIMALS.
(a) Sheep.
12. Foot-and-Mouth Disease.—Three hundred sheep suffered from this
disease in one outbreak but there was no mortality.
13. Other Contagious Diseases.—Extensive outbreaks of Rinderpest were
reported from Beawar and Kekri, 4,317 sheep were attacked of which 1,719
died. Rinderpest in sheep was not reported in previous year.
(b)Goats.
14. Foot-and-Mouth Disease.—There were 47 cases with no deaths.
15. Contagious Pleuro-pneumonia .—Eighty two goats died in an outbreak
in Beawar.
16. Other Gontagious Diseases.—Rinderpest prevailed among goats during
the year causing the death of 236 out of 643 attacked.
(c) Dogs.
17. Rabies.—Fifty eight dogs were detected to be suffering from this
disease. All died or were destroyed.
18. Other Contagious Diseases.—There were 8 attacks and 4 deaths from
Prioplasmosis.
(d) Fowls.
19. Fowl Cholera.—One case and one death were reported during the
year against 260 attacks and 206 deaths in 1937-38.
(iv) PREVENTIVE INOCULATION.
20. Table II—Rinderpest.—Vaccination with Goat Tissue Virus emulsion
was carried out in 17 outbreaks in which 1,469 bovines and 850 other animals
were vaccinated. Only 5 of the vaccinated bovines died but the mortality
among vaccinated goats was 271.
(v) OTHER DISEASES.
21. Table IV.—The Veterinary Assistant Surgeons on tour visited 189
villages and treated 1,714 cases for contagious and 62 for non-contagious
diseases and castrated 74 animals during the year as against 130 villages visited
and 1,582 cases of contagious and 165 of non-contagious diseases treated and
57 castrations performed in 1937-38.
(vi) HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
22. Table III.—As in the previous year, three Veterinary Dispensaries
were working at Ajmer, Beawar and Kekri. The total number of in and out
patients treated during the year under report was 6,661 as compared with
6,623 in 1937-38. In addition, medicines and advice were given for 1,184
cases not brought to the dispensaries, as against 1,301 in the previous year.