Historical summary of Dr Jotello Festiri Soga's career from 22 April 1886 when he registered as veterinary surgeon in Tutuka, Cape Colony to 1902 when he was employed by Carl H. Malcomess to supervise his cattle on the farm Itala in the Stutterheim district.Previously published on the Jotello F. Soga Library websiteab202

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Previously published on the Jotello F. Soga Library websiteHistorical summary of Dr Jotello Festiri Soga's career from 22 April 1886 when he registered as veterinary surgeon in Tutuka, Cape Colony to 1902 when he was employed by Carl H. Malcomess to supervise his cattle on the farm Itala in the Stutterheim district.ab202

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Dr Jotello Festiri Soga His Career (Compiled by Heloise Heyne of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute)   22/4/1886: Registered as veterinary surgeon, Tutuka, Cape Colony 1/11/1889: Employed as Duncan Hutcheon’s (P.V.O. Cape Colony) Second Assistant (Second Junior Veterinary Surgeon) at Stutterheim, East London, Fort Beaufort, Victoria East, Stockenstrom and neighbouring districts, inoculating cattle against contagious lung-sickness [contagious bovine.pleuropneumonia (CBPP) Mycoplasma mycoidesmycoides SC]. Circa 1890: Studied toxicity of plants and their relation to animal diseases and also used plants as remedies in his practice. 1891: Resolved the aetiology of krimpsiekte by dosing Tylecodon ventricosus to goats. Circa 1891: Lecturer on diseases of stock and their treatment in Somerset East. Circa 1891: Worked with the bacteriologist of the Cape Colony, Dr Alexander Edington, who initiated him into the use of locally-produced vaccines and bacteriology and Soga maintained further contact with him. Circa 1891: Completed a course in bacteriology under Edington at Grahamstown. Circa 1891: Assisted Edington in experiments on lung-sickness [CBPP] and Soga’s special report was later printed as a pamphlet (1893). 1892: Own inoculation experiments on lung-sickness (CBPP). Inoculated thousands of cattle with lung-sickness (CBPP) Vaccine. Description of Soga’s inoculating method in Hutcheon’s article (1905) on lung-sickness (probably in Transkei). Circa 1893: Worked with the Cape botanist P. MacOwan. 1894: Left the government services Transkei. Circa 1894: Transferred to King William’s Town and worked on the diseases foot-and mouth, redwater & biliary fever) Circa 1894: Appointed as District Veterinarian. Circa 1895: Assisted Professor Andrew Smith with investigation into the medicinal properties of South African plants and Soga is mentioned in Smith’s 3rd revised edition: A contribution to South African materia medica (1885). 1895: Investigated the cattle disease called Isitwayi. 1895: Experiments on Heartwater. 1895: Acted as judge of horses at the Agricultural Show in East London. Circa 1895: Practical work for the Veterinary Department in the Cape Colony and Botswana. 1896: Appointed as Assistant Veterinary Surgeon. Second in seniority of a staff of eight veterinarians under Hutcheon. 1896: Worked at Maritzani [Mareetsane near Mafikeng, North – West Province] to innoculate cattle belonging to Dr Thomas Smartt against lung-sickness (CBPP). March 1896: Rinderpest entered the northern Cape. Soga and Hutcheon arrived at Mafikeng to attend to the problem. He was ordered to Mafikeng in March, in co-operating with Hutcheon and the police in shooting infected animals (at times as many as 400 cattle at a time). 1896 He was part of a delegation that visited Taung in order to pacify the local people. December 1896: Soga, together with the other South African role-players combatting rinderpest, met up with Dr Robert Koch, who had been brought out from Germany by the Cape Colony to try and eliminate rinderpest. Published article “Stamping out rinderpest. 1897: Research on inoculating cattle against rinderpest at Herschel, near Aliwal North (Eastern Cape). Mid 1897: Inoculating cattle against rinderpest at Nqamakwe near Butterworth (Eastern Cape). 1898/9 Retired from the Cape Civil Service, after taking recurrent sick leave, as a result of the exhaustive fight against rinderpest. Circa 1900: Went into private practice in the Border area (listed as a Veterinary Surgeon - Cape Civil Service Lists). 1902: Employed by Carl H Malcomess to supervise his cattle on the farm Itala in the Stutterheim district. ?: Moved to the farm of the veterinary farrier A B Fitchett at Amalinda, close to East London, where he continued with his own small veterinary practice.  

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