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septicæmia in cats, fowl cholera and other avian diseases. The total
loss under this head was 3,638 as against 768 in the previous year.
Of this number 1,696 deaths were reported as fowl cholera and 1,736
hæmorrhagic septicæmia in eats.

                               Table III.—Preventive Inoculation.

36.     Table III shows the record of preventive inoculations
performed in this province during the year

37.     Inoculation campaigns were organised in 748 outbreaks and
191, 172 animals were inoculated as against 133,039 animals in GOO
outbreaks during the previous year. Details of inoculation are as.
follows: —

38.     These figures exclude 111 cases of inoculation performed
against rinderpest by the serum simultaneous method in the districts
of Krishnagar, Dacca and Midnapore as well as 816 animals inoculated
against the same disease by the serum alone method in 19 outbreaks-
in Calcutta and its suburbs by the staff of the Bengal Veterinary
College.

39.     A reference to the table above will show that there has been
an increase to the extent of nearly 44 per cent. in the number of
animals inoculated in 1932-33 due, as has already been pointed out,
to increase in the number of outbreaks of rinderpest occurring during,
the year.

40.     The number of deaths amongst the inoculated animals was
altogether 905 or 0.5 per cent. of the total.

41.     A sum of Rs. 42,044-12 was paid to the Director, Imperial
Institute of Veterinary Research, Muktesar, for the supply of sera
and vaccines during the year. In the last month of the year issue
of A. R. Serum had to stop as stock and funds were exhausted.

                                                  Table IV.

42.     Table IV shows the mufassal work done by the Veterinary
Assistant Surgeons during the year.

43.     One hundred and four men were at work in the interior, of
whom 71 were purely itinerant and 33 both stationary and itinerant,
who worked in the mufassal either at fixed periods or at the time of