(3)
Radha Krishto Nundy, from Balasore District Board, was irregular
in attendance at lectures, &c., and was prevented from competing
in the final. He is lazy and a great coward with animals. If he
does not improve, he will have to be dismissed.
18. Reports as to the progress and conduct of students have been for-
warded regularly to their respective authorities.
19. Sheo Bux Bogla Scholarship.—The two principal rules governing this
scholarship are—
(1) That the candidate must have passed (a) the Entrance Examina-
tion of the Calcutta University, or (b) the Middle English or
(c) the Middle Vernacular Examination, preference being
given to these examinations in the order stated.
(2) That in awarding the scholarship, preference be given to an inhabi-
tant of the district of Jessore.
* Appendix V.
20. An examination was held in November 1896 to select a student of
the prize. From the appended list* it will be
seen that Babu P. P. Mitter gained 329 marks out
of a possible 400 and heads the list, and Babu N. N. Bhattacharjee gained
176 marks only. But N. N. Bhattacharjee is from Jessore and P. P. Mitter
from Calcutta.
N. N. Bhattacharjee (who has since unfortunately been plucked in his class
A Examination) has no special educational qualifications, whereas P. P. Mitter
has passed the First Arts and Practical Science M. B., Calcutta.
21. The matter has been referred to Dr. McLeod, and no payment has
yet been made. As, on general principle, I am averse to giving the best
prize to one of the least successful students in the school, I shall be glad
if P. P. Mitter's claims are finally approved.
22. I regret to say the value of the prize has depreciated owing to the
debentures in which the money was invested being called in. The capital
will now have to be placed in Government paper, which will yield a lower
rate of interest.
MUSEUM.
23. As a means of teaching students, particularly in this country,
where fresh specimens are extremely difficult of preservation, a museum well
stocked with models and specimens is a sine qua non. Many subjects are
extremely difficult of explanation, if they cannot be actually shown to the
students. Occular demonstration will do more to impress a thing on a person's
mind than hears of talking. I have therefore recommended that a sum of
Rs. 2,000 may bo sanctioned to furnish the museum with models, &c., and
have been directed to prepare a list for consideration.
INFIRMARY.
24. Appendix VI shows that 479 cases were treated as in-patients
during the year under review, as against 437 last year, and 248 were
treated as out-patients in 1896-97, as against 336 in 1895-96. The return,
while showing a falling off of 46 cases on the whole, also gives an increase
of 42 in-patients, which are the most valuable for instruction. The daily
average number of patients treated at the Institution in 1896-97 was 33
in-patients and 19 out-patients, giving a total of daily average of 52.
25. The students have had opportunities of making themselves acquainted
with most of the contagious diseases which they will be called upon to treat, for
we have had 13 cases of glanders, 40 of rinderpest, 7 of eczema contagiosa, 8
of tuberculosis and 3 of rabies in dogs. (Appendix VII to XI.) Unfor-
tunately we have had no cases of anthrax nor symptomatic anthrax.
26. The effect of the famine reacted upon the price of forage at Bel-
gatchia, with the result that I was compelled to ask for a supplementary grant
of Rs. 2,000 under the head of Cattle Feeding.
27. The Infirmary is unfortunately built in an out-of-the-way place,
and therefore does not receive the amount of patronage which would fall to
its lot, if erected in a more central position; but this drawback might be
partially remedied, perhaps, by revising the fees for attendance, which are