The following is an extract from the remarks made by the Examining
Board:—
"We consider that the results are very satisfactory."
4. I give below a statement showing the number of admissions, vari¬
ations in the number of students during the year and the results of the
examinations:—
CLASSES.
Class A ...
„ B ...
„ C ...
Total ...
Admission
at the
commence-
ment of
the session.
71
48
30
149
Students
removed
or
withdrawn.
17
Nil
Nil
17
Number
remaining
at the close
of the
session.
54
48
30
132
Number
appeared
at the
examina-
tion.
51
48
29
128
Number
passed.
38
37
25
100
Percentage
of
passes.
74.50
77.08
86.20
...
5. Table I shows the main results of the college training during the year.
6. The stipends. -Of the 132 students that remained at the close of the
session, 33 students held stipends from the Bengal Government, 53
from District and Local Boards, and one from a Municipality; one received a
stipend from the Darjeeling Improvement Fund, and one the Shew Bux Bagla
scholarship. The Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam assisted 11
students, the Government of Burma four and the Government of the United
Provinces of Agra and Oudh two with stipends.
7. The prizes.—His
Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Sir
Edward Norman Baker, K.C.S.I., honoured the college by presiding at the
annual meeting and Lady Baker was kind enough to distribute the diplomas,
certificates and prizes on the 15th March in the presence of a large assembly
of visitors. His Honour was pleased to signify his intention to sanction, if
funds became available during the year, a reappropriation of the Assistant
Principal's quarters as a hospital for students.
8. The hostels.—The thanks of the students and of myself are due to the
Hon'ble Mr. J. G. Gumming, I.C.S., who has presented to the college a
remarkably handsome portrait of His Majesty the King-Emperor. I have
handed it to the students for safe-keeping and it has been placed in the
common room of the Fraser Hostel. The general health of the boarders
was good, although cases of malaria, dysentery and one case of typhoid
occurred. As a preventive against small-pox, which is very severe in the
city, the whole of the staff, students and establishment were vaccinated.
9. Training of Transport Drivers,—Four Transport drivers from the 26th
Mule Corps, Cawnpore, attended a course of training as dressers during the
three months' vacation of the college. These men were passed as fit to be
dressers.
10. Farriers' class.—Two men were sent by the District Boards of Bbagal-
pur and Burdwan to be trained as nalbunds.
11. The College Hospital.—Five
thousand one hundred and forty-four
(2,275 in-patients and 2,869 out-patients) cases were treated against 4,132
(1,913 in-patients and 2,219, out-patients) of last year,showing an increase of
1,012. The fees realised for treatment, etc., amounted to Rs. 16,392-7-6 and
the cost of feeding was Rs. 26,095-6-4. But out of this sum we maintained
the college riding-ponies, the ambulance horses, the breeding and draft bulls,
besides providing free treatment for chargers and horses used in the public
service. The hospital is, to a considerable extent, a charitable institution for
the treatment of animals belonging to bond fide poor people; the large number
of cases which are admitted afford the students an opportunity of seeing
many diseases and watching the treatment of the same. Unfortunately the