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IV, General Administration. 



Buildings and Works. During the year under report 

 the construction of two additional bungalows for European 

 officers and the extension of the Pusa Library were com- 

 pleted. Additional quarters for the subordinate staff of 

 the Institute are under construction. The schemes for the 

 installation of electric lights and fans in the European 

 bungalows and the Rest House at Pusa and for the addi- 

 tion of a female ward to the Pusa hospital as well as the 

 proposal for a new ice machine at Pusa have been sanc- 

 tioned. 



Library. The third edition of the catalogue of the 

 Pusa Library will shortly be out. During the year under 

 report over 500 volumes were added by purchase besides 

 many foreign bulletins, memoirs, reports, etc., which are 

 received in exchange from different parts of the world. 



Pusa Schools. The Middle English School was raised 

 to the status of a High School on 2nd January 1915, and 

 one of the long felt wants of the residents was thus satis- 

 fied. The number of pupils attending the school at the 

 close of the year was 185. It has a staff of one Head Mas- 

 ter and 14 Assistant Masters and promises success. A 

 Lower Primary Girls' School was also started on 20th Feb- 

 ruary 1915. 



General Health of the Station. The general health of 

 the station during the year under report continued to be 

 good. Medical relief was afforded to 10,217 persons of 

 whom 9,969 were treated in the out-patients' department 

 and 248 admitted as indoor-patients. Ninety-one cases 

 among the European officers and their families were attend- 

 ed to. 



The daily average number of patients treated was 69-19 

 out- door and 12-14 in-door. 



Ten deaths occurred in hospital, some of these cases 

 were brought to the hospital in rather advanced stages of 

 disease, 



