6. PATHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

ft is evident from the foregoing remarks of this report that the countries in Africa are keenly alive to the economic importance of Veterinary Research, and that considerable sums of money are devoted to the work.

I attach the estimates for the Research Div ision of the Veterinary Service of Kenya.

Five Veterinary Officers and nine European Laboratory \ssistants are employed.

The live stock has a lower economic value than that of the Sudan, as there is no export "trade of cattle.

In Uganda a new Pathological Veterinary Laboratory is just being built, commencing with a personnel of one Veterinary officer, two European Assistants, and one Clerk.

The Veterinary Laboratory of South Africa is the largest in the world.

Veterinary research is most important in the Sudan, and there is a large field for investigation. YVe therefore recommend that the Veterinary Laboratory should have one trained European Laboratory-Assistant, and suggest that the matter should receive attention in this year’s budget. Also that facilities for a certain amount of extension of the Veterinary Laboratory should be afforded as the necessity arises.

7. VETERINARY SURVEY.

The Veterinary Departments of die countries in East Africa and Uganda have an ambitious policy of eradicating the three great animal scourges of their countries. These are Rinderpest, Contagious Bovine Pleuro-pneumonia and East Coast Fever. With this object in view, the Veterinary Department in Uganda is completing its veterinary survey of their Northern border, and Mr. Montgomery, the Veterinary Adviser to this group of countries, has requested information as to the incidence of these diseases on the Southern border of the Sudan.

The importance of the possession of this knowledge has been referred to under the heading of East Coast Fever.

We therefore offer the suggestion that a Veterinary Survey of the Southern border of the Sudan should be carried out and that this should be done, in co-operation with the Veterinary Department of Uganda. v;.