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23.    Contagious diseases amongst other animals.—These include
such diseases as rabies and distemper in canines and fowl cholera, etc.
The loss under this head was 599 as against 112 in the previous year.

                         Table III—Preventive Inoculation.

24.     Table III gives details of the number of inoculations performed
during the year.

25.  There were altogether 522 outbreaks in which inoculation was
undertaken and the total number of cattle inoculated was 113,847 as
against 1,152 outbreaks and 206,616 animals inoculated during the pre-
vious year. Details of inoculation are given below : —

26.     In addition to the above figures 2,085 animals were inoculated
in Calcutta and its suburbs by the Staff of the Bengal Veterinary
College.

27.     Inoculation against rinderpest was carried out on a very large
scale, but there has been a considerable decrease in the number due
chiefly to less prevalence of outbreaks of virulent type in this year.

28.     Enquiries made in the localities where animals were treated
with protective sera show that results were highly satisfactory. When-
ever possible this method of checking the disease is now adopted and
very little opposition is encountered in the advanced parts of this Presi-
dency. In some of the outlying tracts however there is still much
apathy and prejudice and Veterinary Assistant Surgeons have to experi-
ence very great difficulty in getting this system of treatment adopted.

29.     The death-rate amongst inoculated cattle was negligible, being
489 in all, or 0-4 per cent. for the whole Province.

30.     A sum of Rs. 37,100-9 was paid to the Director of the Imperial
Institute of Veterinary Research, Mukhtesar, on account of the cost
of sera and vaccines supplied to the Province during the year.

                                                   Table IV.

31.     Table IV shows the work done by the Itinerant Veterinary
Assistant Surgeons both at headquarters and in the mufassal.

32.     As in the previous year, 99 men were at work in the mufassal,
of whom 72 were purely Itinerant and 27 Stationary and Itinerant, who
toured in the interior either at fixed periods or at the time of out-
breaks. Besides doing the inoculation work referred to in paragraph
25 of this report, these officers visited 16,846 villages and treated