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SANITARY SURVEYORS' CLASS.
10. Five Graduates were admitted to the Sanitary Surveyors' Class in
January 1909, Three of the Graduates who were admitted to the class in
January 1908 attended the class up to the end and passed the Sanitary Survey¬
ors' Examination in July 1908, one gaining a scholarship.
HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
11. Mr. Framji Bomanji Jeejibhoy having given a donation of Rs. 3,000
for a Colic loose Box at the Hospital, the work of building the box is in hand.
The Hospital authorities have through the agency of the Public Works
Department built a new road in their compound adjoining the road of the new
Veterinary College at the opening in the divisional wall.
The question of building the Operating Theatre is still pending and has
been referred to Government at the special request of the Secretary of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who wishes that fresh plan
and estimates for the building should be drawn by the Executive Engineer,
Presidency, and that the building work should be carried out under the super¬
vision of that Officer.
THE NEW COLLEGE.
12. On its completion the possession of the new building of the College
was taken over from the Public Works Department and the building was
formally opened by the Honourable, Mr. J. L. Jenkins, C. S. I., in the
presence of a gathering of Graduates, students and teachers and the general
public. Before declaring the building formally opened he addressed the
assembly. His speech was very encouraging. The following is an extract
from his speech :—
" The Honourable Member said that it gave him great pleasure to take
part in the ceremony of formally opening the new College building. This
erection was the newest acquisition to an institution which from small
beginnings had grown to be one of the finest and best of its kind in India ;
he thought he might be warranted in saying that it was the finest and best.
The pre-eminence which the College had attained was due to the energy
and enthusiasm of successive Principals, first Mr, Steel, and then Lieuten¬
ant-Colonel Mills and Major Joslen, and there had been no decline in
efficiency, and Mr. Sowerby has shown how these gentlemen had put their
heart into the work of the College. No sooner had one demand to Govern¬
ment been granted than another had been pressed upon them, and the
Government had been most anxious to supply them because the College
was doing most admirable work and deserved the fullest support which
both the public and the Government could give it."
The total cost of this building amounts to Rs. 94,490-12-7 and the cost of
building the new quarters for students to Rs. 81,921-15-1, The price paid for
the land on which these are erected is Rs. 1,00,023-7-0. Thus the total
expenditure which Government has incurred on the new premises comes to
Rs. 2,76,436-2-8.
LIBRARY.
13. On the Principal having represented to Government that the Library
of the College was out of date and very far from sufficient for the needs of the
Institution both for students and teachers alike, a special grant of Rs. 5,000
was sanctioned during the year 1908-09 for the purchase of books, book cases,
etc. Also the annual grant on this account has been increased for the next
ten years from Rs. 450 to Rs. 1,000. From the special grant volumes of books
and periodicals and book cases suitable for the Library were purchased. The
Library has already been removed to the new building and books have been
re-arranged.
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