Kasauli is one of the small towns developed by the
British during the 'hey day' of the empire, and
reached by a branch road from the Kalka-Shimla
road. The quite beautiful hill-station of
Kasauli has a Pastur Institute that produces the
anti-rabies vaccine against mad dog-bite and, at
the same time, treats victims who have fallen
prey to the dead disease, Hydrophobia. The
institute in Kasauli set up in 1900, is the
oldest in India, taking care of pet, police and
army dogs as well as their masters.
Side by side
another institute produces other vaccines, this
is the Central Research Institute affording
immunity from Typhoid, small-pox, cholera and
snake-bite. The Shimla Hills stand on water -
parting between the Sutlej and the Giri, a
tributary of the Yamuna.
South of Shimla
is the Panchmunda ridge, which is crossed by a
railway through a tunnel, the longest in the
Kalka-Shimla run at Barog, where a series of
fissure to springs occur at its flank. The first
ridge above Kalka rises abruptly to pine-clad
Kasauli at a height of 1,927m and is joined by a
12-km bridle path. The distance by road,
however, from Kalka is 36.5-km
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