STAFF-The European staff consists of 21 veterinary officers, one chief clerk, one laboratory assistant, 27 stock inspectors, one farm manager, one clerk storekeeper and one mechanic. In addition there was an Asiatic clerical staff of 6 and there were 250 African quarantine guards.
TOURING.-The...

The staff consisted of 20 Europeans, 6 Asiatics and 58 Africans.
ANIMAL DISEASES.-A focus of RINDERPEST was in existence at the beginning of the year and this, as well as an extension and a fresh outbreak, was eradicated by the end of May by means of double inoculation after which the Protectorate...

In a broad sense it may be said that the major cattle diseases of the Territory were rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia, East Coast fever and trypano-somiasis, snd of these the first two were the most important.
RINDERPEST.-A scheme for dealing with rinderpest in the Territory was...

STAFF-Work in the field and in the research institute is seriously handicapped by the lack of staff.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.-Sixteen outbreaks of ANTHRAX were reported as against six the previous year; many were controlled by quarantine and inoculation, but in Barotse Province the disease is...

DISEASE CONTROL.-Details are given of an extensive campaign against RINDERPEST waged in circumstances of great difficulty owing to staff sickness; the disease was under control by September, but movement of infected game (buffalo) caused outbreaks later. Mortality following inoculation in 10-6% of...

TRYPANOSOMIASIS.-With more than two-thirds of the country submerged in a sea of tsetse-infested bush, the incidence of trypanosomiasis continued in all domesticated animals inhabiting areas on the periphery of, or often surrounded by, " fly "belts. T. congolense, T. vivax and more rarely T. brucei...

GENERAL-The year was unusually dry and there was serious shortage of grazing in the northern areas, where, in addition to the drought, locusts were also troublesome. Messrs. Liebig's factory opened in July and received 4, 258 cattle from settled areas, 3, 709 from native reserves, and 3, 846 from...

GENERAL
No details are given about staff or expenditure.
LIVESTOCK DISEASES
BACTERIAL DISEASES.-Here and mere losses were caused from ANTHRAX, Notes are given for French Guinea, Niger, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. Vaccination was employed on a large scale in French Guinea. HAEMORRHAGIC SEPTICAEMIA...

STAFF-There were 16 European veterinary surgeons, 12 European " auxiliaries " and about 100 native assistants employed in the service, and it is also stated that 11 European veterinary surgeons were employed by livestock breeding societies.
A veterinary laboratory at Gabu-Nioka worked on...

GENERAL.-The first section of this abridged report deals mainly with developments in the livestock industry following the start of military operations in East Africa. One of the chief difficulties was the provision of adequate cold storage, but this was being overcome. Control of supplies of fresh...