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APPENDIX E 
A licence to shoot one bull elephant (tusks over 30 lb. each) 
costs ;£io. 
A licence to shoot two bull elephants (tusks over 30 lb. 
each) costs £30. 
APPENDIX E. 
Veterinary Notes. 
By R. J. STORDY, Chief Veterinary Officer. 
East Africa, like many new countries, has its fair share 
of stock diseases. Many of these diseases have been in 
existence for so long a time that their virulence has become 
attenuated, with the result that a large percentage of the 
animals born in the country are possessed of an immunity 
or resistance to them. The immunity exhibited by the 
native stock of East Africa is one of the Protectorate’s 
greatest assets, and goes far to ensure the success of the stock 
raising industry for which large areas of the Protectorate are 
eminently suited. 
To combat disease of stock, an up-to-date Veterinary 
Department has been formed by the Government, and during 
the past two years a pathological laboratory has been 
established for investigating the diseases of the country and 
for the manufacture of protective sera for the various diseases 
which affect stock in East Africa. 
The chief veterinary officer has his headquarters at Nairobi, 
and veterinary officers are stationed at various centres 
throughout the Protectorate. 
The veterinary officer at the ports of Mombasa and 
Kilindini examines all stock entering the Protectorate by 
sea, and a fly-proof stable is at the disposal of importers of 
stock at Kilindini in which to house their animals prior to 
their being entrained for up country. The railway authorities 
provide fly-proof vehicles for the conveyance of stock through 
the tsetse-fly belt which extends from the coast to Simba 
