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21.  Other Contagious Diseases.—Eighty-one cases of Rabies
died or were destroyed. Piroplasmosis caused the death of 28
dogs out of 149 attacked, 403 sheep and goats died of Contagious
Pleuro Pneumonia and 5 died of Foot-and-Mouth Disease out of
68 attacked. Contagious Mamitis was responsible for the death of

20 animals. Seven dogs died of Distemper out of 31 attacked by
the disease. Verminous Bronchitis caused the death of 40 goats.
Parasitic Gastritis combined with Verminous Bronchitis caused
the death of 235 sheep and goats in Dadu District out of 700
animals attacked.

                        (iv) Preventive Inoculation.

22.  Table II.—" Serum Alone " inoculation was undertaken in

21 outbreaks of Riderpest and 1,033 bovines were inoculated, as
against 1,412 animals inoculated in the preceding year. In these
21 outbreaks, 167 un-inoculated and 6 inoculated animals died of
the disease.

23.  Goat Tissue Virus Protective inoculation against Rinderpest
was carried out in 8 outbreaks. 1,146 animals were immunised
out of which 20 died.

24. Haemorrhagic Septicaemia serum inoculation was carried
out in 23 outbreaks. 1,626 animals were inoculated. In the course
of these outbreaks, 183 deaths occurred among un-inoculated and
6 among inoculated animals.

                                  (v) Other Diseases.

25.  Table III.—Veterinary Assistant Surgeons visited 1,751
villages, treated 6,870 animals for contagious diseases and 2,910 for
non-contagious diceases and castrated 1,202 animals, as against
1,882 villages, 5,845 cases treated for contagious disease and 3,062
for non-contagious diseases and 1,465 castrations performed in
1934-35. Almost all the castrations were performed by Burdizzo
method.

                                  (vi) Investigation.

26.  As usual specimens were submitted by the Subordinate
staff from cases of Surra, Piroplasmosis, Haemorrhagic Septicaemia,
Parasitic Gastritis, Liver Fluke, Filariasis, Anthrax, Verminous
Bronchitis, Mange, etc. Of 392 specimens submitted by the Subor-
dinate staff 253 were confirmed. Brains from 32 cases suspected
of Rabies were submitted to the Haffkine Institute, Bombay, for
examination and 28 of these were confirmed.

                (vii) Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries.

27.  Table IV.—At the nineteen Veterinary Dispensaries which
continued to be working, 28,127 in and out patients were treated,
as against 27,402 in the previous year. Medicines and advice were
given for 3,698 cases which were not brought to the dispensaries
for treatment, as against 3,349 in 1934-35. 2,326 animals were
castrated at Veterinary Dispensaries during the year under report,
as against 2,030 in the previous year.