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Lallubhai was easily accessible to the people and he took part in various local activities started for their moral, intellee tual and social progress. He performed the opening ceremony of the English School at Umarala in 1912. Subsequently when the school was handed over by its founders to the state authorities for management, Mr. Kaushikram V. Mehta, B. A. the Director of State Education, Bhavnagar, referred in very appreciative terms to the help and guidance which the school had received from Lallubhai. Even to this day the school is closed on the anniversary of his sad death in the memory of the departed promoter of the institution. When in 1912 the province was in the throes of a severe famine, Lallubhai personally attended to many of the famine relief measures in his own local area. In short he rendered himself very popular owing to his generous and obliging nature, untiring energy and devotion to duty.
Now we come to the last and most unfortunate phase of his short but glorious career. In the month of August 1912 Lallubhai was once more attacked by a serious illness and though all that was humanly possible to secure a cure, was done, the life could not be spared. All the friends and sympathisers of the deceased and of his father tried their hardest In securing medical advice and rendered valuable services out of sheer love for the family and the personal interest they took in Lallubhai's speedy recovery. Sheth Ratanjee Virji, on coming to know that Dr. Burjorjee (the retired Chief Medical Officer, Bhavnagar) recommended the patient for a change of air, very generously pláced his fully furnished bungalow at the disposal of the family. The Officers of the State as well as the leading citizens visited the family from time to time studiously anxious to know how the patient was faring. Even Their Highnesses the Maharaja Saheb and the Maharani Saheb of Bhavnagar were gracious enough to call upon the family several times and they generously placed expert medical advice at the disposal of the patient. His Highness the Maharaja
