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                          No. G.-336 OF 1916.

                                                   GENERAL DEPARTMENT,

                                             Office of the Commissioner in Sind,

                                   Government House, Karáchi, 27th July 1916.

MEMORANDUM.

The Commissioner in Sind has the honour to submit the report of the
Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Sind, Baluchistan and
Rajputana, on the working of the Veterinary Department in Sind during the
year 1915-1916.

Charges.

2. Mr. J. G. Cattell held charge of the office of Superintendent for nearly
the whole of the year upto the 12th March 1916,
when he proceeded on short leave owing to ill-health
and Khan Sahib S. G. Haji acted for him. Mr. E. S. Farbrother worked as
attached officer under training upto the 13th July 1915, when he joined the
Indian Army Reserve of Officers. Khan Sahib Haji held the post of Deputy
Superintendent for Sind throughout the year.

Tours of Officers.

3. The Superintendent's tour by road in Sind was not as extensive as in
the previous year. In 1913-1914, when the Superin-
tendent travelled 454 miles by road, the Commissioner
remarked that more systematic road tours were essential in order to get into
closer touch with stock-breeders and agriculturists. In 1914-15, there was a
marked improvement when Messrs. Cattell and Farbrother between them,
during the period that they respectively held the office of Superintendent,
travelled 732 miles by road in Sind. In 1915-16, the Superintendent toured for
94 days only in Sind and travelled 459 miles by road. Mr. Cattell's illness
towards the end of the year, his journey to Pusa to attend the Agricultural
Conference and the visit to the Hissar Farm which together occupied sixteen
days, and the week spent at Karáchi in January in connection with the arrange-
ment at the Cattle-show, curtailed the extent of his Sind tour. Mr. Farbrother
toured in Baluchistan only. The Deputy Superintendent, whose tour was as
usual confined to Sind, travelled extensively by road in spite of several
interruptions.

The statistics indicate the good results attending the systematic monthly
tours which veterinary assistants are now required to make in pursuance of the
remarks made by the Commissioner on this point in his review of the work of
the Department in the year 1913-1914.

Sindhi scholarship-holders at
the Bombay Veterinary College.

4. Of the six stipendiary Sindhi students studying at the Bombay
Veterinary College, one of the two last year students
passed the final examination in December 1915 and
the other in April 1916. Both of them have been
appointed Veterinary Assistants in Sind. Two more students were sent to the
college from Sind. Of the six Sindhi students now studying in the College, four
are Mahomedans and two Hindus. Officers are required for two dispensaries,
one at Matli, where premises were constructed last year, and the other at Nawab-
shah, where the dispensary was located in a hired building. These posts will be
available for the two last year students who are expected to pass the final
examination next December.

Dispensaries.

5. The fulfilment of the programme for the construction of dispensaries
outlined in the scheme sanctioned in Government
Resolution, Financial Department, No. 1879, dated

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