DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 81 



liussell Alger Kunnells, a 1st Lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps, 

 entered the service July 12th, 1917 and served five months as Veterinary 

 Officer for the Medical Officers Training Camp, Ft. Benj. Harrison, Ind.; 

 three weeks on duty at the Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C; 

 eight months at the Remount Depot, Camp Meade, Md. ; four months on 

 the staff at Veterinary Officers Training Camp, Camp Lee, Va. He was 

 discharged from service January 6, 1919. 



James William Benner, 2nd. Lieutenant of the Veterinary Corps of 

 Company 45, Battalion 12 was in the service from August 15, 1918 to 

 December 20, 1918. He was quizz-master of Medical Officers Training 

 C'orps, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. 



Adding to the personnel of the Department of Animal Pathology made 

 it possible for Professor Hall man to devote a large portion of his time for 

 much needed research work upon diseases of the reproductive organs of 

 breeding cattle; a condition having now a special significance incident to 

 the rehabilitation period we are now entering upon and the demand for 

 meat, milk, leather and breeding animals. 



On January first Dr. Hallman became connected with the State Agricul- 

 tural Experimentation staff, his time and salary being adjusted to permit 

 of his devoting 25-27 of his energies to the research problems and 2-27 to 

 teaching general pathology. This is a start in a field offering extensive 

 opportunity for rendering valuable service to the livestock owners of the 

 state; a field having many important phases for research work and animal 

 disease control problems. Michigan with a sum exceeding $200,000,000; 

 invested in its farm animals is essentially a livestock state and it is our 

 desire to so augment the personnel of the Department of Animal Pathology 

 as to facilitate its carrying on a disease control project and as I recently 

 outlined in my annual communication referring to the salary budget for 

 the next fiscal year. 



Research work of this character serves not only to improve our know- 

 ledge concerning methods for prevention of disease; it educates the 

 people on the economic importance of disease and in this will serve to 

 reduce the present losses; equally so, it adds materially to the quality of 

 student courses in the laboratory work of animal pathology. This work 

 in laboratory diagnosis renders assistance to the practitioner helping to 

 bring him and his profession closer to the college, which he will learn to 

 look upon as a place to obtain assistance, information, technical diagnosis, 

 and advice in treating or controlling disease. 



Besides the addition to the division faculty, we have taken on during the 

 yeai- an extra veterinarian, T)r. A. McKercher, practitioner of Lansing, 

 witli a view to extending our clinical training for senior students. Each 

 afternoon since January first, two senior students have been assigned to 

 this out-clinic work wherein oj^portunity has been afforded actual contact 

 experience in general practice. While this temporary arrangement sup- 

 plied a much needed feature and did strengthen the weakest phase of the 

 course, the arrangement, we believe, was not without its shortcomings and 

 can be much more advantageously developed from viewpoint of its utility 

 to both college and students. As already recommended in my letter con- 

 cerning personnel we feel a full time veterinarian ought to be retained to 

 develop this out-clinic in cooperation with an internal free clinic and 

 both should be available for educational purposes at all times. 



Judge Collingwood as on several previous occasions was prevailed upon 



