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the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, furnishing detailed information regarding the treatment of surra and the measures to be adopted for its prevention.
The Colonial Secretary,
Port Louis (Mauritius).
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I have, &c.,
J. MEAD, Under Secretary to Government.
The PRINCIPAL, Veterinary College, Bombay, to the SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, Revenue Department, Bombay.
SIR,
(No. 585 of 1902.)
Bombay Veterinary College, Parel, May 13, 1902. WITH reference to your endorsement, No. 3278, dated 12th May, 1902, on the copy of a telegram from the Colonial Secretary, Port Louis, I have the honour to report that the following treatment and preventive measures are generally adopted here for
surra:-
(1.) Treatment:—
Arsenic in the form of liquor is used in surra cases, and Dr. Lingard, Imperial Bacteriologist, who has been investigating the disease for some years, reports that arsenic is the only agent that is efficacious in the treatment of this disease. But in India it is mostly found amongst horses, and is almost always fatal. Amongst cattle it is not known to occur on this side of India. It is said it occurs amongst them in a benign form. However, the arsenic treatment may prove equally efficacious with them. Animals in fairly good condition are only fit to undergo this treatment. A dose of five grains of arsenic may be commenced with, and given twice daily for two days, the quantity being increased by half a grain after every four doses have been administered, until seven grains are reached. The latter quantity should be continued twice daily for seven days, and, if the animal be a large one, the dose may be increased by the addition of half a grain up to nine, or even ten grains, twice daily, for the same period. The dose should then be gradually reduced by half a grain or one grain according to the condition of the patient, until a four grain dose has been reached. Again, if possible, after a period of two days, repeat the treatment, increas- ing and decreasing the dose of arsenic as above described.
From the commencement of the arsenical treatment, it is advisable to give gruel, morning and evening, directly after the medicine, otherwise symptoms of gastric irritation will supervene.
(2) Preventive measures:-
(A) All diseased animals should at once be isolated.
(B) Water should be filtered and boiled.
(c) All grain and corn should be cleaned properly and should specially be freed
of the excrement of rats.
(D) Grass grown on marshy lands should not be given.
(E) All carcases should be burnt.
(F) As a prophylactic, healthy animals should be given an ounce of liquor arsenicalis in drinking water, for a month at a time, and then discon- tinued for a week, and again given.
I have, &c.,
N. D. DHAKMARVALA, G.B.W.C.,
For Principal.
The SUPERINTENDENT, Civil Veterinary Department, Bombay Presidency, to the UNDER SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, Revenue Department, Bombay. (No. 471 of 1902.)
SIR,
Camp Ahmednagar, May 14, 1902. WITH reference to your endorsement, No. 3230, of the 10th instant, forwarding copy of a telegram from the Colonial Secretary, Port Louis, dated the 7th instant, for report, I have the honour to inform you that surra in cattle in India is very uncommon,
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and not fatal. The most successful results in its treatment have been obtained with arsenic in the form of liquor arsenicalis, which can usually be given in the drinking water. Five to six grains twice daily may be given for a week along with good feeding.
2. The preventive measures necessary are to remove the cattle from marshy, low-lying places to well drained land, where there is a pure water supply, as the disease is supposed to be generally obtained through the drinking water. The blood of animals should be examined frequently under the microscope, and the number of organisms noted for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. The very worst cases should be destroyed. Grass or hay obtained from marshy land should not be used for feeding or other purposes.
3. The excrements of rats and mice should be taken out of the grain, or the grain should be parched. It is, as yet, a disputed point whether surra and the
tsetse" fly disease are one and the same.
I have, &c.,
F. JOSLEN,
Veterinary Captain,
Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department.
(G.)
COLONIAL SECRETARY, Mauritius, to SECRETARY, Bombay.
TELEGRAM.
June 13, 1902. Do you advise slaughter of all mules and horses attacked with surrah? Please telegraph reply.
(H.)
SECRETARY, Bombay, to COLONIAL SECRETARY, Mauritius.
TELEGRAM.
June 17, 1902. Your telegram of 13th June last. Slaughter of marked cases recommended; equines rarely recover; flies carry infection.
SIR,
Enclosure 3 in No. 2.
Mr. AMEDEE HUGNIN to COLONIAL SECRETARY.
June 18, 1902.
I BEG to forward to you a copy of the following cablegram which I sent yesterday to Principal of Veterinary College, New York:-
Surra (trypanosoma evansi) prevailing in Mauritius on mules and bullocks Heavy losses. Arsenic and quinine unsuccessful. What prophylactic and curative treatment you recommend!"
The reply has just been received, and I have much pleasure in communicating the same to you:-
Give stimulants, quinine, iron and occasionally laxatives, as calomel and oil. Use slings, if possible, and give nourishing foods.-W. J. COADES."
I have, &c.,
ADEE. HUGNIN.
Mr. AMEDEE HUGNIN to COLONIAL SECRETARY.
SIR,
June 20, 1902. I HAVE much pleasure in communicating to you a copy of the reply which I received this morning to the following cablegram sent by me on the 17th instant:-
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