6          REPORT ON THE CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT, BURMA,

                           CHAPTER IV.—VETERINARY EDUCATION.

                                    INSEIN VETERINARY COLLEGE.

1. (1) A seventh batch of students was admitted for the course
beginning on the 1st July 1940. Altogether 25 students began the course,
comprising 8 stipendiary, 9 non-stipendiary, 6 from the Shan States,
1 from the State Colonies and 1 from Messrs. Steel Brothers and
Company, Limited.

(2)   Two graduates of the Madras Veterinary College received
post-graduate training before being posted to field work as Veterinary
Inspectors.

(3)   No refresher course for Veterinary Inspectors or Veterinary
Assistants was held during the year.

               STUDENTS UNDER TRAINING IN FOREIGN COLLEGES.

2. (1) No new candidates were forthcoming for training at the
Madras Veterinary College.

At the end of the year the following students from Burma were
under training in India :—

(2) It was with great regret that news was received of the death
from pleurisy of Maung San Htwe, a Burman State Scholar, who was
studying at the Dublin Veterinary College.

The second State Scholar, Maung Hla Kyaw, passed his final
examination for the diploma of M.R.C.V.S. at the Royal Veterinary
College, London, and also his final B.V.Sc. examination and remained
in England to take a post-graduate course at the Institute of Animal
Pathology, Cambridge.

           CHAPTER V.—VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY,
                                                       INSEIN.

                                              ROUTINE WORK.

(In this Section the figures in brackets are the totals for 1939-40).
1. Pathological Specimens examined.—(a) Bloodsmears.—During the
year 1,115 (1,369) bloodsmears from the districts were examined. Of
these 773 (853) were submitted by officers of the Veterinary Depart-
ment, 267 (436) by the various timber firms and 75 (80) by the Military