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India as well as from different parts of the world, about 

 325 new volumes were purchased for the library during the 

 year under report. The work of rearranging, classifying 

 and indexing books, periodicals, etc., has been undertaken 

 and is being proceeded with steadily. Index slips of the 

 periodicals were also supplied to the Education Depart- 

 ment of the Government of India for the preparation of a 

 General Catalogue of Scientific Literature in the Libraries 

 in India. 



Pusa Schools. The total number of pupils attending 

 the Pusa High School on the 31st March, 1917, was 221 

 against 193 last year. Sixteen candidates have been sent 

 up for the Matriculation Examination of 1917. 



The Lower Primary Girls' School was open for about 

 three months, but on the resignation of the school mistress 

 no substitute was appointed, and the school had to remain 

 closed during the latter part of the year. 



General Health of the Station. The epidemics of 

 cholera, plague and small-pox, which broke out in the vici- 

 nity of Pusa during the months March to June, 1917, and 

 the occurrence of four imported cases of small-pox and two 

 of cholera among the menials coming from the affected 

 villages seriously threatened the health of the station. By 

 cutting off the station from all connection with the affected 

 villages and by keeping the water supply pure, the epide- 

 mics were successfully kept out of the station and the gene- 

 ral health continued to be good during the year under report. 

 There was, however, one case of enteric fever among the 

 Europeans which unfortunately proved fatal. 



A female ward, properly furnished, was added to the 

 Pusa Hospital during the year. 



Medical relief was afforded to 11,956 persons of whom 

 11,659 were treated in the out-patients' department and 

 297 as indoor patients. One hundred and one cases among 

 the European officers and their families were attended to. 



Five deaths occurred in the hospital, but most of the 

 cases were brought into the hospital in rather advanced 

 stages of disease. 



