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Annexe M.
BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
REPORT BY DR. H. MACFARLANE, Bacteriologist.
THE PREPARATION of Calf Lymph,
Seventeen calves were inoculated (9 in 1915). The total number of tubes of lymph issued was 23,167 (7,294 in 1915). The value of the lymph according to Government Notification No. 380 of 1910 was $8,680.50 ($3,217.00 in 1915).
ROUTINE EXAMINATIONS.
Under this heading are grouped the various examinations of materials sent in. The number was 91,842 as compared with 90,398 in 1915, of which ninety odd thousand were the examination of rats for plague:--
New Growths, -Examination by section, Widal's Reaction for the bacillus typhosus, Examination by culture for bacillus diphtheria, paratyphoid B., dysenteriæ, and differential count vibro of cholera, typhoid carriers, section for Negri body, Microscopical examination for malaria parasites of leucocytes, of blood for syphilis by dark ground condenser, of stools for eggs, amœbæ, of sputum for tubercle bacillus, of urine for tubercle bacillus,
17 148 354 2 158 33 13 .1 103 22 39 77 A 1 7 9 1 141 2 Carried forward,...... 1,327