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          Annual Administration Report of the Civil Veterinary
              Department, Ajmer-Merwara (British Rajputana),
                                for the official year 1916=17.

                             GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.

Mr. J. G. Cattell held charge of the office of the Superintendent, Civil
Veterinary Department, Sind, Baluchistan and Rajputana, throughout the year
with the exception of 16 days in the beginning of April 1916 when he was on
privilege leave and Khan Sahib S. G. Haji, Deputy Superintendent, Civil
Veterinary Department, Sind, acted as Superintendent in addition to his own
duties.

Owing to his time being fully taken up in Sind and Baluchistan Mr.
Cattell was unable to tour in Rajputana during the year.

                          I.—VETERINERY INSTRUCTIONS.

                              Veterinary Colleges and Schools.

2. There are no veterinary colleges or schools in the province and there is,
therefore, nothing to record under the heading.

                              II.—TREATMENT OF DISEASE.

See Table II.

3. Outbreaks of contagious disease were reported from both Ajmer and
Merwara districts. The diseases reported
were rinderpest and foot and mouth disease
in bovines and distemper, rabies and mange in other animals. The total
mortality reported among all classes of animals was 217 against 836 last year.
Very little reliance, however, can be placed on the mortality statistics.

                                    Bovine contagious disease.

4.    Rinderpest.—Two hundred and nine head of cattle were reported to
have died out of 363 animals attacked in the Ajmer district.

5.    Foot and mouth disease.—Sixty-one animals were attacked and one
died during the year under report.

See Table III.

6.    Preventive Inoculation.—Four thousand and thirty-three head of
cattle were inoculated against rinderpest
in 8 outbreaks, in the Ajmer district.
Fourty-three deaths occurred among the inoculated animals.

                            Contagious disease in other animals.

7.    Only 1 death from distemper in Ajmer, and 4 from rabies (1 in Ajmer
and 3 in Merwara) and 2 from mange in Merwara district were reported
during the year. Last year 200 deaths from anthrax, 562 from sheep pox, 1
from distemper, 13 from rabies and 5 from mange were reported from both
districts.

                                          Other diseases.

See Table IV.

8. While on tour, Veterinary Assistants treated 300 animals for con-
tagious diseases and 24 animals for non-
contagious ailments against a total of 368
animals treated last year. The decrease in the number of animals treated is
partly due to the absence of the junior Veterinary Assistant, Ajmer, on three
months' leave and partly to the Veterinary Assistants at Ajmer being engaged
in inoculation work for nearly three months.