1 Georgina Sweet : 



Indian bullocks — and I am informed by Mr. J. A. Valladares that 

 he had found them in five bullocks at Madras previously to my visit. 



In Ceylon, on my making enquiries, the Government Veterinary 

 Surgeon, Mr. G. W. Sturgess, was able to obtain specimens from 

 both Bos indicus and Bos bubalis killed in the local abattoirs, these 

 nodules being evidently endemic in this Island. On examination of 

 them in his laboratory, I found, although there were two or three liv- 

 ing nodules from old cattle, most of them, large or small, were much 

 caseated or calcified, or nearly absorbed. 



Central Provinces and Berar. — I am indebted to Mr. J. A. Valla- 

 dares, Deputy Veterinary Superintendent at Nagpur, for a numbe* 

 of specimens from four localities in this part of Central India, two- 

 being in the far North of the District, though in other localities in 

 this district, where search was made, they were not obtainable. 

 In each case they were found 1-3 in number, in the brisket and in 

 old cattle. Once only were as many as eight nodules, all small 

 in size, observed. In the four localities where careful observation was 

 made and statistics were kept, only six animals were found 

 affected out of a total of 1203 examined — though it is stated that in 

 general " the existence of worm-nodules is fairly common in the 

 Central Provinces." 



United Provinces of Agra and Otid/i. — The very careful investi- 

 gations made, in response to my requests, at slaughter houses and 

 meat drying factories, under the direction of Major J. D. E. 

 Holmes, C.I.E., Imperial Bacteriologist, and of Mr. C. W. Wilson. 

 2nd Civil Veterinary Superintendent of these provinces (who most 

 kindly set apart an officer especially for the purpose) have resulted 

 in the finding of these worm-nodules in a great part of the area 

 concerned from Bareilly and Shahjahanpur in the North to Jhansi 

 and Lalitpur in the South, and from Aligarh and Agra in the West 

 to Unao in the centre, and it is probable that they are even more 

 widely distributed through this region than as yet discovered. 1 

 am informed by Mr. Wilson that these nodules have been known 

 to exist here, although the fact had not previously been recorded. 

 They are found both in Bos indicus and in Bos bubalisA In cattle 

 they occur the more usually about the base and side of the neck, 

 but most commonly under the skin and in the intercostal spaces near 

 the sternum, " between the 3rd and 13th ribs on the external 

 oblique and pectoral muscles." In frequency affected cattle varied 

 from 20 per cent, of the animals killed at the slaughter house and 



1 See Addendum 1. 



