3

13.  Compounders' training classes were held at Nagpur,
Jubbulpore, Raipur and Amraoti divisional headquarter dis-
pensaries and thirty-nine students were admitted. Thirty-four
passed the prescribed course and were awarded certificates; three
left the class and two failed to qualify.

14.  Mr. G. D. Pani, Veterinary Assistant Surgeon, attach-
ed to the Veterinary Laboratory, was deputed to a three months'
post-graduate course at Mukteswar.

                II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASE

               1. EXAMINATION OF SPECIMENS

15.  Diagnosis of diseases.—This item of work forms the
chief activity at the laboratory. During the year 6,710 (7,944)
specimens of blood smears, pus, milk, fæces, urine, nasal wash-
ings, scrapings, helminths, tumours, etc., were examined and
specific infection was detected in 752 (1,107) cases as follows: —

               *Recorded for the first time in this Province.