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Twelve meetings in the Male Section and 12 in the Female
Section were held during the year under report.

The hospital was also visited by the following officials and
other distinguished personages during the year under review :—

1.  Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President, Indian National
Congress.
2.  The Commissioner of Chota Nagpur Division.
3.  The Deputy Commissioner, Ranchi.
4.  The Surgeon General with the Government of Bengal.
5.  The Raja Bahadur of Tamkohi.
6.  The Hon'ble Mr. Jaglal Choudhury, Minister of Excise
and Public Health, Bihar.
7.  The Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bihar.
8.  The Members of Managing Committee.

37.  Casual Visitors.—Besides, the hospital was visited by
several ladies and gentlemen, Indians and Europeans, throughout
the year under report.

I express my gratitude on behalf of my patients to all the
charitably disposed ladies and gentlemen who contributed freely
to our Donation Fund during 1939.

38.  Lectures.—The students of the Prince of Wales Medical
College, Patna, were as usual sent in two batches to this hospital
during the year under report to undergo a course of intensive
training in mental diseases.

The post-graduate students of the Department of Psychology
and Philosophy of the Calcutta University and several students
of the Gurukul Vishwavidyalaya, Kangri, also visited the
hospital, during the year under report. On these occasions short
lectures with demonstrations of cases on special requests were
delivered by me to the students.

39.  General— (1) Kanke Employees Co-operative Credit
Society.—The Society continued to flourish in every respect and
rendered valuable help by granting loans to some of the staff
who were in need of the help of the Society to get themselves
freed from the clutches of the local Shylocks. The number of
share-holders increased from 340 to 362 in the year under report.

(2) Bratachari Movement.—Remedial classes were regularly
held every evening and some patients were trained in the Brata-