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During the year the veterinary assistants attended 966 outbreaks of
Rinderpest, Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia, Anthrax and Blackquarter, in
which preventive inoculation was undertaken. The total number of
cattle inoculated was 173,762 against 136,418 cattle inoculated in the
previous year. The number of deaths among inoculated cattle was 972,
or 0.5 per cent. of the total.

The immunity secured by the serum simultaneous inoculation was
put to a practical test during the outbreak of rinderpest at the Rangpur
Cattle Farm in the year under review. Those animals which had been
inoculated by this method remained immune from the disease during the
outbreak.

5.    The veterinary assistant surgeons visited 15.429 villages and
treated 100,830 cases, against 15,022 and 94,894, respectively, in the pre-
ceding year.

6.     Two new dispensaries were opened by the local bodies during the
year. The total number of such institutions now stands at 43. The
total number of patients treated in these dispensaries was 51,025 against
47,260 in the preceding year. The thanks of Government are due to
the District Hoard of Rangpur for the interest taken by it in the matter
of expansion of veterinary work in the discrict, where there are seven
dispensaries in addition to a veterinary hospital at the district head-
quarters.

7.    His Excellency the Governor has much pleasure in acknowledging
the valuable services of Mr. P. J. Kerr as Director, Civil Veterinary
Department and Veterinary Adviser to Government, and in recording his
appreciation of the good work done by Messrs. A. D. MacGregor and
R. T. Davis in connection with the Bengal Veterinary College.

                                                     By order of the Governor in Council,

                                                                         G. S. DUTT,

                                                   Secretary to the Government of Bengal.

                                             No. 4954.

Copy forwarded to the Veterinary Adviser to the Government of
Bengal for information.

                                             No. 4955.

Copy together with a copy of the report of the Civil Veterinary
Department, Bengal, forwarded to the Local Self-Government Department
of this Government for information.

                                                         By order of the Governor in Council,

                                                                            J. C. SEN,

                                               Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bengal.

        CACUTTA,

The 21st October 1926.

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