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5 bottles anti-diphtheritic serum, etc., 

 besides 7,800 doses of plague prophylactic 

 and 75 doses of plague curative serum. 

 H. Watkins-Pitchpord, 



P. 7. Surgeon. 



April 29th, 1901. 



D.V.S. WOOLLATT. 



My work has consisted chiefly of the 

 office duties of the Department. 



I have made visits to the Clean Quaran- 

 tine Depot at Pieters, where the 

 work continues to proceed very satisfac- 

 torily. There are about 1,100 head of 

 oxen there, and since the Depot started 

 we have not had a case of lungsicknessin 

 in the Depot. There have been some 

 cases of lungsickness on the farm Brak- 

 fontein among Native cattle ; that portion 

 of the farm, however, has not been used 

 as a Depot, and has been strictly guarded. 



At Matowan's Kop the camp for dis- 

 charged transport cattle only contains 

 some 383 oxen, many of them having been 

 taken back into military service. There 

 are 20 different lots of cattle on this farm, 

 seven of the lots being under license for 

 lungsickness. There is one herd under 

 license for lungsickness in the Borough 

 of Pietermaritzburg, consisting of one calf. 

 This has since died from the disease. 



DURBAN.— D.V.S. AMOS. 



There has been little or no horsesick- 

 ness in the Borough of Durban during 

 the month. 



Glanders has been specially reported 

 upon to you. 



One fatal case of Endocarditis occurred 

 in a recently imported South American 

 filly. 



Redwater has occurred in several im- 

 ported cows. 



A good many animi'.ls have been tested 

 at the Compound for tuberculosis ; these 

 are chiefly Australian heifers. Of the 98 

 tested none have reacted to the test. 



I had one very acute case of Urticaria, 

 which had a most successful ending to 

 saline treatment. 



HOWICK— D.V.S. BYRNE. 



Lion's River Division. 

 Scab exists in the following flocks, 

 which have been placed under license : — 



A flock of 550, of which 400 are affectod, 

 the property of Mr. H. Steadman, of 

 the farm Woodlands. A flock of 

 2,800, of which 1,000 are afliected, 

 the property of Mr. G. Woodhouse, 

 Ilalliwell. A flock, the property ofMr. C. 

 Strapp, Oatlands. A flock of 250, the 

 property of Mr. Jas. Ross. Gowrie. All 

 are loot sheep, bought at the Mooi River 

 sale on March Gth, with the exception of 

 the flock of Mr. Ross. 



Lungsickness. — The Lungsickness 

 license has again been renewed to Mr. 

 Clarke and Natives, Mount Ashley. Five 

 l)easts have now died, or been killed, and 

 six recovered up to date. 



Horses ickness. — The only case I have 

 personally seen so far this season of 

 horsesickness 1 saw during the month. 

 It w;is a mare, the property of Mr. Young, 

 Court Prosecutor, Howick. 1 am sorry 

 to say the mare died. I have heard of 

 aliout six deaths from the disease in this 

 Division so far. 



Upper Umkomanzi Division. 



Horsesickness is bad in the Upper Um- 

 komanzi Division. They have lost 30 

 horses this season iip to the end of March. 



There is no scab in the Division at pre- 

 sent. 



I inoculated over 600 calves as a pre- 

 ventive against quarter-evil during the 

 month ; all of which have done well. 



We have had a lot of rain during March, 

 but stock seem to be doing well all over 

 my district. 



GREYTOWN-D.V.S. CORDY. 

 Scab. - Five fresh outbreaks have oc- 

 curred during the month, three in the 

 Western Umvoti Division, and two in the 

 Eastern Umvoti Division. The careless 

 manner in which a large number of the 

 farmers in this district look after their 

 sheep is, to a great extent, the cause of so 

 widespread an outbreak of the disease. 

 Having so-called fences on the farm, 

 which, in a great number of instances, are 

 only fences by name, the sheep in most 

 cases have no herd with them, and con- 

 sequently roam the District at large. 

 Another source of trouble is the non- 

 reporting of an outbreak of the disease to 

 the neighbours on adjoining farms, or to 

 the Stock Inspector. Two cases of this 

 kind have recently occurred in the 



