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Veterinary Research
THE
VETERINARY JOURNAL Editor: FREDERICK HOBDAY, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E., HONORARY VETERINARY SURGEON TO HIS MAJESTY THE KI NG , OFFICIER DU MERITE AGRICOLE (FRA N CE), CAVALIERE DEISS. MAURIZIO E LAZZARO (ITALY), HONORARY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY ASSOC IATION, PRINCIPAL OF THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE , LON DON.
Sub-Editor: GLADSTONE MAYALL, M.R.C.V.S.
MAY, 1932.
VETERINARY RESEARCH. THE continued response to the Editorial r equest for articles on sheep diseases has been such that this present issue of THE VETERINARY JOURNAL is a worthy supplement to the special April quarterly number, and will be a further stimulus to the efforts of the Veterinary Committee of the Agricultural R esearch Council in their promised efforts to endeavour to provide the veterinary profession with its much belated funds whereby its researchers' brains may have the opportunity to put their well thought out themes into practical shape-an opportunity which has only been held back by miserable parsimony and lack of funds. It has been an astonishing error of judgment in the past, and it is still an amazing fact, that those in authority over attempts to control animal disease in this country seem so willing to spend such enormous sums of the taxpayers' money in compensation for animals killed as actually suffering from certain diseases, and so little in efforts to discover and prevent their causation. The young graduate who is willing (and capable) to follow research into the causation and prevention of animal diseases receives such miserable financial and other compensations as compared with what he can make in general practice and other spheres of veterinary outlook, that he has no alternative but to set a research career on one side; and it is only in rare instances that he returns to it, which is not only a loss to the profession, but to the country at large. The labourer is worthy of his hire; the remedy lies in a fair deal. As we have many times repeated before, if those who are vitally concerned- i.e., the owners of stock and the Government-will provide a fair and just financial outlook, the profession will find not only the men, but the brains.
RINDERPEST IN INDIA. IT has been estimated that about a quarter of a million cattle die annually of rinderpest in India. This estimated loss is, perhaps, small when it is realised that there are nearly two hundred million cattle, including buffaloes, in the R
VETERINARY JOURNAL Editor: FREDERICK HOBDAY, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E., HONORARY VETERINARY SURGEON TO HIS MAJESTY THE KI NG , OFFICIER DU MERITE AGRICOLE (FRA N CE), CAVALIERE DEISS. MAURIZIO E LAZZARO (ITALY), HONORARY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY ASSOC IATION, PRINCIPAL OF THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE , LON DON.
Sub-Editor: GLADSTONE MAYALL, M.R.C.V.S.
MAY, 1932.
VETERINARY RESEARCH. THE continued response to the Editorial r equest for articles on sheep diseases has been such that this present issue of THE VETERINARY JOURNAL is a worthy supplement to the special April quarterly number, and will be a further stimulus to the efforts of the Veterinary Committee of the Agricultural R esearch Council in their promised efforts to endeavour to provide the veterinary profession with its much belated funds whereby its researchers' brains may have the opportunity to put their well thought out themes into practical shape-an opportunity which has only been held back by miserable parsimony and lack of funds. It has been an astonishing error of judgment in the past, and it is still an amazing fact, that those in authority over attempts to control animal disease in this country seem so willing to spend such enormous sums of the taxpayers' money in compensation for animals killed as actually suffering from certain diseases, and so little in efforts to discover and prevent their causation. The young graduate who is willing (and capable) to follow research into the causation and prevention of animal diseases receives such miserable financial and other compensations as compared with what he can make in general practice and other spheres of veterinary outlook, that he has no alternative but to set a research career on one side; and it is only in rare instances that he returns to it, which is not only a loss to the profession, but to the country at large. The labourer is worthy of his hire; the remedy lies in a fair deal. As we have many times repeated before, if those who are vitally concerned- i.e., the owners of stock and the Government-will provide a fair and just financial outlook, the profession will find not only the men, but the brains.
RINDERPEST IN INDIA. IT has been estimated that about a quarter of a million cattle die annually of rinderpest in India. This estimated loss is, perhaps, small when it is realised that there are nearly two hundred million cattle, including buffaloes, in the R