(5 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL LlESEARCH 



etc., which are received in exchange from different parts of 

 the world. 



Pusa Middle English School. — The Pusa Middle 

 English School which was established in 1912 is becoming 

 popular. It has four English and four Vernacular classes 

 and the total number of boys on the roll is 93 out of which 

 53 belong to the Estate and the remaining 40 come from the 

 neighbouring villages. The school is located temporarily 

 in the Students' Hostel until the completion of the school 

 building which is under construction. Proposals for 

 raising the present school to the status of a High School and 

 also for the establishment of a Girls' School at Pusa are 

 under the consideration of the Local Government. 



General Health of the Station.— The general health of 

 the station during the year under report was on the whole 

 very good. Relief was afforded to 9,226 cases, of which 

 8,999 were treated in the out-patients' department and 227 

 admitted as in-door patients. One hundred and two cases 

 amongst European officers and families were attended to. 

 The daily average number of patients treated was 64-05 

 out-door, and 10-69 in-door. 



Four deaths occurred in hospital, one from Gangrene- 

 foot, one from Malarial Cachexia, one from Cirrhosis Liver 

 and one from Suppurating Tonsilitis. 



The number of Estate cases treated for Malarial Fever 

 was small when compared with the admissions from the 

 neighbouring villages. This was probably due to the 

 Estate people willingly taking the quinine which was 

 issued prophylactically towards the close of the monsoon. 

 An epidemic of cholera which broke out in the villages in 

 the immediate vicinity of Pusa, during the months of April, 

 May and June, threatened to be a source of grave danger. 

 Immediate and successful measures were taken to prevent 

 it entering the Estate. Chief of these was keeping of the 

 water supply pure by disinfecting and cleaning the wells. 

 The epidemic was thus kept out of the Estate limits. 



Two hundred and five surgical operations were per- 

 formed of which nineteen were major, and one hundred and 

 eighty-six minor. 



