ANNUAL REPORT

                                                                OF THE

        CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
                        BIHAR AND ORISSA

                                                        FOR THE YEAR

                                   1929-30

                                           CHAPTER I.

                        GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

MR. D. QUINLAN being still on combined leave preparatory
to retirement, Major P. B. Riley, I.V.S., continued to act
as officiating Director and Veterinary Adviser to Government
while Special Officer Mr. Ismail Malik, M.R.C.V.S., held charge of
the North Bihar and Rai Sahib P. N. Das of the Orissa Range
throughout the year.

2.  The work including the Central Range having been too
heavy for one officer, a re-arrangement of the duties of the
Director and the Assistant Director attached to (he head office
was approved by Government and accordingly, Assistant Director,
Babu Nilmoni Chatterji, was placed in charge of the range
with certain restrictions from 22nd May 1929.

3.   During the year, Major Riley visited 39 veterinary
hospitals and dispensaries out of 126 in the province, attended
a meeting of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research at
Simla and the joint meetings of this Council and the Board of
Agriculture held at Pusa, and a meeting of the Selection Board
for the appointment of the remaining superior staff to the Bihar
and Orissa Veterinary College at Patna, acted as an examiner
at the annual examinations of the Bengal Veterinary College
and also as Examiner and President of the Bihar and Orissa
Veterinary Examination Board. He interviewed candidates for
fresh admission to the Bengal Veterinary College and saw
students reading there. He also held a conference of gazetted
officers of the Department at Patna and visited the Sonepur fair.