The routine work of the laboratory consisted in examinations of slides and smears received from government officials and private owners, and in serum and vaccine preparation. The latter part of the work included the preparation of anti-rinderpest serum (274, 368 doses), anthrax vaccine (32, 180...

Towards the middle of the construction period of the Panama Canal the Hospital at Ancon organized a dairy and stocked it with animals from the United States, chiefly from the Gulf coast region. A number of pigs and a considerable number of chickens were also imported and subsequently the enterprise ...

This paper purports to describe the life of a veterinary surgeon in the tropics contrasting that in the West Indies, where the author was first stationed, with that in the Far East, where he is at present employed. It gives quite an interesting account of field work and incidence of disease in...

This report is divided into three sections dealing respectively- (1) with contagious diseases, (2) the veterinary pathological laboratory, and (3) the school of veterinary medicine.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Cattle plague and double inoculation. -During the year there were 873 deaths from cattle plague...

SECTION ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Cattle Plague (Rinderpest). During the year, 1, 794 deaths were reported in two Governates and 14 Provinces. This represented a death-rate of about 0.1 per cent. In addition to the cases that occurred in the interior of the country, 621 cases were detected amongst ...

This is a complete account of the entire veterinary organization in Bulgaria and is set out under sectional headings.
Bulgaria extends over an area of over 104, 000 square kilometres and has a total population of about five and a half million, of whom some four-fifths lead an agricultural life. The ...

The European staff was reduced to 45 persons during the year. Mr. F. J. McCALL the Director retired Mr. HORNBY was appointed Acting Director [since appointed Director]and Mr. EVANS Acting Pathologist.
DISEASE CONTROL.
ANTHRAX is epizootic amongst sheep and goats being the most important causé of...

This is a most comprehensive report, covering animal diseases, all aspects of public health in which veterinarians take part, and the livestock census.
The sections consist of a short account of the diseases as encountered during the period, copies of individual reports from officials and a...

" Eradication of rinderpest and contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia, and the local control of every other disease, whenever this is economically desirable ", summarizes disease control policy.
RINDERPEST.-Outbreaks were dealt with by methods which varied somewhat in detail, but were all based on the ...

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY.-Detailed information is given. The 1934 census gave the following data: -261, 000 horses, 900 mules and asses, 2, 8491000 cattle, 268, 000 sheep, 326, 000 goats, 2, 828, 000 pigs, 8, 679, 000 chickens, 100, 000 ducks and 98, 000 geese. Since 1923 pigs and poultry have increased in ...