8                      REPORT ON THE VETERINARY DEPARTMENT, BURMA,

The staff consisted of U San Hla, Assistant Principal, one Veterinary
Inspector and two Veterinary Assistants.

(b)   Refresher Course.—No course was held during the year.

(c)   Veterinary Education.—The School at Insein was re-opened as a
Veterinary College on 6th November 1933, for a course of Veterinary
training of one year's duration, to students who wished to qualify for
the new grade of Veterinary Assistant. Twenty-one students were
enrolled, of which 13 were given stipends of Rs. 15 per month.

This course has been organized on practical rather than on theo-
retical lines and pupils, on successful completion of their course, will be
appointed to vacancies in the Veterinary Assistants grade in the
Subordinate Veterinary Service. These new recruits will form the
nucleus of a new grade, which will in time replace the existing
Veterinary Assistants trained in a three years' vernacular course at
Insein, and will be posted in Townsnips under District Veterinary
Inspectors. At the end of the year the position with regard to the
number of students attending the Insein Veterinary College was as
follows :—

With the exception of four students who failed to pass the quarterly
test and were removed from the College, the students worked very well
and showed a keen interest in their studies. The system of awarding
the stipends of unsatisfactory students, who were removed from the
College, to the non-stipendiary students who had stood highest in the
class examinations was found to be successful in developing a spirit of
competition in the class.

(d) Instruction in Villages by Field Staff.— The field staff delivered
lectures on general cattle diseases, Cattle Disease Rules, and gave
demonstrations of veterinary treatment of disease by Western methods in
the villages when on tour. The value of this instruction is difficult to
estimate but it is undoubtedly of some use in promoting veterinary
knowledge amongst cattle owners.

Bulletins and Leaflets.— A report (No. 1 of 1933) entitled " Surra in
Horses" by Mr. Pfaff, dealing with curative and prophylactic value of
Naganol and Antimosan and a report of the Field Veterinary Research
Officer on the Elephant Sick Camp, 1932-33, were published as depart-
mental bulletins. It is regretted that on grounds of economy, no
distribution of pamphlets or leaflets by the staff could be carried out
during the year.

EDUCATION OF RECRUITS TO THE VETERINARY INSPECTORS GRADE.

As a result of proposals of the Director of Veterinary Services
being accepted by Government for the recruitment of new grade of
District Veterinary Inspectors, to replace the existing vernacular trained