Sept. 1, 1899.] Supplement to the " Ti^opical Agriculturist,^^ 
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Bareilly ; and as the results, though the experi- 
ments were on a small scale, were satisfactory, 
the Lieutenant-Governor considers it advisable 
that the procedure adopted should be made 
generally known. On receipt of information 
regarding outbreaks of rinderpest in the Bareilly 
district, Captain Rogers, I.M.S,, the Imperial 
Bacteriologist, in March last, addressed the 
Collector of the district, stating that he would 
shortly have a supply of serum for use in inocula- 
tion, and asking for assistance in carrying out 
the process. The Commissioner of Rohilkhand 
submitted the correspondence to Government for 
definite orders as to the nature and extent of the 
assistance to be given, pointing out that any 
mistake at the beginning might have serious 
effects. The Commissioner was informed by the 
Government that the Bacteriologist should receive 
all possible assistance in the prosecution of his 
work in Bareilly, the results of which might be 
of the greatest benefit to the country ; but that 
care should be taken that no pressure was brought 
to bear on the villagers, and that no experiments 
veere made without their full consent. To secure 
these ends the following procedure was prescribed. 
On hearing of an outbreak in a village conveni- 
ently situated for the Bacteriologist's action, a 
sensible and trustworthy Deputy Collector or 
Tahsildar was to he deputed to go at once to the 
ppot, assemble the landlords and chief raiyats, 
explain to them the object of inoculation, and 
strive to get their consent to its being tried. 
On their consenting, but not otherwise, the 
Bacteriologist was to be allowed to inoculate the 
cattle. 
The Bengal Veterinary School has been raised 
to the status of a College which is under the 
management of a committee appointed by 
Government and consisting of Government officers 
and native gentlemen. The college consists of a 
large building in which are three lecture-rooms, 
a museum, library and reading-room, pharmacy, 
lecturers' room, and a photograpliic room. 
A Veterinary Hospital is attached to the 
College, consisting of four horse wards, post 
mortem and dissecting-room, shoeing-forge, 
operation, shed, end store-room. Special isola- 
tion wards for the contagious and infectious 
cases are provided outside the College compound, 
so as to prevent any chance of communication 
between the infectious and non-infectious cases. 
There is also a hostel attached to the College, 
which has been expressly provided for the benefit 
of the students of this College. It consists of 
eight large and three small rooms, with quarters 
for the Manager, and has sufficient accommodation 
for - fifty boarders. Full clinical and other 
facilities will be afforded to meet the educa- 
tional requirements of veterinary students in 
the Bengal Presidency. Students may also be. ad- 
mitted from any other part of India. The special 
objects of the College are to train thoroughly 
practical and competent men for veterinary service 
under Government, Native States, Municipali- 
ties, District Boards, and private employers. 
GovernmeQt have undertaken to bear the cost 
of the establishment, which consists of a Princi- 
pal, and assistant principal, three lecturers, an 
Hespital Surgeon, and a considerable working stuff. 
Eulas for the admission of students to, and 
regulation of their studies in, the Bengal Veteri- 
nary College, and for the admission of animals 
into the hospital of the Bengal Veterinary College, 
are issued provisionally, and are liable to be 
modified hereafter, if found necessary. It ■ is a 
pity that Ceylon is so backward as regards veteri- 
nary education, which is more or less con- 
fined to a short theoretical coarse whih is 
of little benefit to the students attending it. 
This procedure was adopted with successful re- 
sults, and without any friction of any kind, but, 
as the outbreak was on the decline, the Bacterio- 
logist was unable to make experiments on a large 
scale. In one village in which nearly a third of 
the cattle had died, twenty-four animals wer« 
treated ; a fortnight later none of them had been 
attacked, while out of thirty-nine healthj' animals 
which had not been inoculated, seven had con- 
tractted the disease, and of these three died. In 
another village five were successfully inoculated ; 
but the disease was at the time on the decline, and 
their subsequent immunity from it may possibly 
be due to this cause. The experience gained in 
Bareilly is imporcant, as indicating that with judi- 
cious explanation the villagers can be induced to 
consent to the experiments ; and the Lieutenant- 
Governor desires that District Officers will in a 
similar way arrange to give assistance to the 
Bacteriologist when similar outbreaks occur. In 
this way inoculation against rinderpest may be- 
come in time so popular that the ordinary district 
veterinary staff may be able to practice it, to the 
great benefit of the people and the country. 
At the Cape, the services of the Veterinary Sur- 
geons are placed at the disposal of farmers and 
others. The following notification is worthy of 
being read and digested by our local authorities. 
As things go in Ceylon, the Colonial Veterinary Sur- 
geon has first to get authority before he can visit 
the scene of some serious epizootic outbreak, while 
attendance on individual cases of serious non-conta- 
gious disease do not seem to come within the 
scope of that officer's duties : — 
"Farmers and owners of stock throughout the 
Colony frequently telegraph to the Department of 
Agriculture requesting that one of tlie Govern- 
ment Veterinary Surgeons should be sent at once 
to them to attend to some valuable animal which 
has been taken seriously ill. It is rarely possible 
to comply with these requests ; in the first place, 
because it is seldom that the Veterinary Officers 
can be communicated with immediately by tele- 
graph, as they are generally engaged in the 
country at some distance from a telegraph station ; 
and in the second place, because the only Veteri- 
nary Officer who may be at liberty to leave the 
work upon which he is engaged at the time, may 
be two or more hundred miles away, and can 
hardly be expected to arrive in time to be of any 
real service in an urgent case- Hence much, 
valuable time i? wasted, the owner of the animal ia 
dissatisfied, and the Veterinary Staff discredited. 
It would be much more satisfactory, therefore, in 
all such cases in which veterinary advice and 
assistance are required, if the owner would tele- 
graph the narure of the complaint that the animal 
is suffering from, giving as full and accurate 
description of the symptoms as possible. Thi^ 
