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Tables IV and V.

16. Fifty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty-one cases
were treated by veterinary assistant surgeons
on tour in villages affording relief to the rural
population as against 87,272 during the last financial year. The
number of castrations performed was 35,288 as against 16,530
last year This increase reflects great credit to the staff for the
hard work done in this direction and also that the cultivator
class and other interested in animals are willing to have their
animals castrated by the new method, and M. Gur Bux Roy, veteri-
nary assistant surgeon, Maharajganj, district Rae Bareli, tops the
list for the highest number of such operations performed, which was
1,932.

Cattle poisoning.

17. Thirteen cases of cattle poisoning were reported during the
year from the districts of Muttra, Agra, Bareilly,
Moradabad, Shahjahanpur, Ballia, Unao, Sita-
pur and Kheri and the accused persons were dealt with accordingly
by the courts of justice.

                            CHAPTER IV.

VETERINARY HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.

Veterinary hospitals
and dispensaries.
Table V,

18. There were 166 veterinary hospitals and dispensaries at the
beginning of the year but an addition of one
was made in the Dehra Dun district and that
of two in Etawah district in the course of the
year and the number came to 169, making a total addition of 3 at
the close of the year under review.

Grants-in-aid for cons-
truction of veterinery hos-
pitals.

19. No contribution could be granted to local boards for con-
struction of veterinary hospitals or dispensaries
on the fifty-fifty basis owing to financial strin-
gency during the year. Some applications were,
however, received from district boards for monetary grants which had
to be refused.

                                    CHAPTER V.

LABORATORIES AND EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS.

Laboratory work.

20. Four hundred and thirty-one smears were examined at the
headquarters and circle laboratories in the
year as against 358 in the previous year.
Besides these, a number of pathological, entomological and helmin-
thological materials were also received for examination. Rare and
interesting materials were preserved for demonstration purposes
in the headquarters laboratory museum. The smears examined
were from various species of animals and they include equine,