VETERINARY SCHOOL), BURMA, FOR THE YEAR ENDED THE 31st MARCH 1829.       3

advisability of altering the curriculum, the strengthening of the teaching
staff and the needs of the school as regards buildings, etc. Their
report has been submitted to Government.

Towards the end of the year building operations for the erection
of a pharmacy, dressing shed and operating room and a laboratory
were commenced. The provision of an adequate supply of water was
also under consideration.

Table V.

4.   Hospital.—The out-patient register showed a total daily
attendance of 4,855 animals, 1,872 being new cases and cattle the
majority of patients. The average number of out-patients treated
amounted to 13.30.

In the in-patients department 270 new cases were admitted, dogs
being in the majority. The daily average number of cases treated
amounted to 14.8 and the average daily attendance of both in and out-
patients amounted to 28.10.

Four suspected cases of rabies were brought during the year but
owing to the lack of proper facilities for safe-keeping of these danger-
ous animals they were not admitted. One pupil was bitten and
underwent treatment at the Pasteur Institute.

Amongst the out-patients brought to the school, the following
contagious diseases were detected, viz., rinderpest, foot-and-mouth
disease, surra (including a naturally infected case in a dog),
distemper, piroplasmosis, ankylostomiasis, filariasis, streptotrichosis,
necrobacillosis, fowl cholera, sarcoptic and demodectic mange.

5.  Laboratory.—Six thousand two hundred and twenty slides were
examined during the year, viz., 4,080 from the districts and 2,140
from hospital cases.

The diseases detected by microscopical examination were :—

                                                   II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASES.

                                                           (1) Contagious Diseases.

                                                              LOWER BURMA.

Table II.

6. Rinderpest.—The continued reduction of mortality from this
disease during the past two years was unhappily not maintained.
Amherst district suffered very heavily in fact not since 1890 has such
a high mortality been recorded. In Kawkareik township 2,239 deaths
were registered and those in Kya-in township amounted to 1,986.
The disease started in Kya-in township in February 1922 and was
prevailing in a mild form at the close of last year. It unfortunately
became virulent and spread to other parts of the district notably the