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the senior class, which are usually taken by the Principal and the Assistant
Professor, had to be entrusted to the instructors owing to the absence of
Dr. Nariman on leave for a part of the year and the Assistant Professorship
having remained vacant for another part of the year when Dr. Nariman was
acting as Principal.
13. During the year under report fittings were erected in the students'
drug and bone rooms ; permanent sun and rain protectors for office doors were
provided and the lecturers' room was also divided into two parts by a small parti-
tion. The minor works mentioned below were sanctioned during the year,
which will shortly be executed :—
(a) Construction of new privies.
(b) Construction of bath-rooms for resident students.
(c) Construction of urinals for students.
(d) Paving of old privies and construction of cesspools.
(e) Alterations in the trevis and measuring shed.
(f) Additions to record shelves in clerk's office.
(g) Construction of a cesspool behind the dissection and post-mortem rooms
and a receptacle for the maceration of specimens.
The following are also essential and will shortly be proposed :—
(h) A canvas ceiling and certain minor alterations in students' quarters.
(i) Laying of gas and water pipes in the new Patho-Bacteriological and
the Chemical Laboratories.
Of these works the first four are the outcome of the visit which His Excel-
lency the Governor Lord Harris paid to the College on the morning of 16th
January 1891 with a view to inspect the sanitary condition of the College and
hospital grounds and to inquire after the health of the resident students. The
College officers and the students feel highly indebted to His Excellency for the
kind interest thus evinced by him in their welfare. Certain changes with a view
to increasing the dimensions of the present privies are also under contemplation.
The Sir Dinshaw Manekji Petit Patho-Bacteriological Laboratory, of which
the foundation-stone was laid by His Excellency Lord Reay in 1889-90, was
completed and opened in the presence of a large and representative public
gathering by His Excellency Lord Harris, the Governor of Bombay. His
Excellency Lord Harris was also graciously pleased to honour the College on
the same occasion by distributing the diplomas, medals, prizes and certificates
to the successful graduates and students of 1890. The building of the labora-
tory, which consists of a cellar, a ground floor and three upper floors, is a gift
of Sir Dinshaw Manekji Petit, Bart., and is expected to supply a long felt
want in veterinary instruction. No medical or veterinary institution of the
present day can be considered perfect unless it has a research laboratory. The
laboratory owes its existence to the exertions of the late Veterniary Surgeon
Steel, who was the first to start the scheme, which also received great support
from Mr. K. M. Shroff, the present Secretary to the hospital. It is intended to
utilise the cellar for storing vaccines, lymphs, cultivation media, &c., and the
ground-floor as a general pathological room for the work of the Professors and
graduates ; the second floor will be used as a practical class-room for teaching
Histology to the B Class and Morbid Anatomy to the C Class; the third floor will
be the bacteriological room for delicate work by the Professors, where occasion-
ally students and graduates will be taken but not allowed to handle the delicate
apparatus; the top-most floor, which is open on all sides with a canvas awning,
will be utilized in future for micro-photography after certain alterations. The
building has been properly furnished and the necessary apparatus, including a
bacteriological microscope, has been ordered and is expected in a few months
from England. It is intended to commence work at the beginning of the long
session, that is, from November next. For the special and delicate work of the
laboratory it is quite essential to have one specialist solely devoted to it, but as
the laboratory is more to be utilised for teaching than for original research,
arrangemets for the work can be made among the present teaching staff with
certain alterations in the present system of lectures. The necessary proposals
for this will be submitted when the scheme is ready.