ANNUAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT

                                                         OF THE

                  CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
                            MADRAS PRESIDENCY

                                                            FOR

                                         1912-1913.

                   Proceedings of the Board of Revenue (R.S., Sur., L. Rds., and Agri.),
                                                  No. 212, dated 28th July 1913.

                                              The Hon'ble Mr. A. BUTTERWORTH.

Read—the following papers :—

                                                                            (i)

Letter—from F. WARE, Esq., M.R.C.V.S., I.C.V.D., Superintendent, Civil Veterinary
Department.

To—the Secretary to the Commissioner of Revenue Settlement, Survey, Land
Records and Agriculture.

Dated— Vepery, the 7th July 1913.
No.-2572.

I have the honour to forward herewith the annual administration report of the
executive branch of the Civil Veterinary Department for the official year 1912-13.

                                                                 ENCLOSURE.

                 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, CIVIL VETERINARY
                                                      DEPARTMENT, MADRAS.

                                             I.—GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

Mr. Ware continued to hold the office of Superintendent but he availed himself
of combined privilege leave and special leave on urgent private affairs from the after-
noon of the 6th April to the afternoon of the 4th October 1912. Mr. P. J. Kerr
officiated as Superintendent in the interim but as he arrived in the Presidency on the
1st April, he was placed under training till he relieved Mr. Ware.

Mr. Ware spent 75 days on tour and travelled 4,044 miles by rail and 157 miles
by road. He inspected all the hospitals with the exception of those at Coimbatore,
Sivagiri, Tinnevelly, Sivaganga and Trichinopoly. He also inspected the storage of
anti-rinderpest serum at the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Guindy, the