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(6) General.-At the risk of being tedious I must again emphasize the need for consideration being given to the need for a new Institute in close relation to one of the large hospitals. The need for more room will require some building addition to the present structure at some date not far distant, if further development of the work at present carried on is to be considered, and it would seem to be uneconomic to do this if removal is to be contemplated within a few years.
Quite apart from actual routine work the Institute is more and more being used for teaching purposes, such as in the instruction of sanitary officers, hospital dressers, etc., and this naturally encroaches on our already scanty room.
This is also true of the stable quarters, where room for an extra pony is needed for the necessary increase in the production of anti-meningococcal serum. Another grave need is for an operating room for removal of vaccine material from calves. At the present moment this is carried out in the open, which is to say the least of it highly undesirable.
The summary of tests at the end of this Report appears to show fewer tests carried out in 1933 than 1932. This is due practically entirely to alterations in the mode of presentation of figures, chiefly with reference to Widal tests, which were previously reported as separate agglutinations of each of the three organisms, while the present totals show a single test for each serum. This alone makes a difference of 1,828 tests. There are other minor changes in the same direction, so that with corrections the total for the two years is practically identical. It must be recalled, however, that in 1932 there were three minor epidemics of cholera, cerebro-spinal meningitis, and diphtheria, requiring the examination of unusual numbers of faeces, spinal fluids, and throat swabs. That the total number of examinations remains practically the same shows that the regular routine work has increased steadily. Probably the greatest increase is shown in serological work, about 2,000 more sera having been examined this year. The number of blood smears examined for malarial parasites is also very much greater.
The work of the staff is satisfactory and the usual high standard of technical efficiency has been maintained.
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PROTOZOOLOGY AND HELMINTHOLOGY.
(1) Blood films for malaria.-One thousand nine hundred and ninety films were examined for the presence of malarial parasites. A marked improvement has been noted in the quality of the blood films forwarded for examination from the hospitals, and diagnosis is much facilitated thereby.
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(6) General.-At the risk of being tedious I must again em- phasize the need for consideration being given to the need for a new Institute in close relation to one of the large hospitals. The need for more room will require some building addition to the present structure at some date not far distant, if further development of the work at present carried on is to be con- sidered, and it would seem to be uneconomic to do this if re- moval is to be contemplated within a few years.
Quite apart from actual routine work the Institute is more and more being used for teaching purposes, such as in the in- struction of sanitary officers, hospital dressers, etc., and this naturally encroaches on our already scanty room.
This is also true of the stable quarters, where room for an extra pony is needed for the necessary increase in the production of anti-meningococcal serum. Another grave need is for an operating room for removal of vaccine material from calves. At the present moment this is carried out in the open, which is to say the least of it highly undesirable.
The summary of tests at the end of this Report appears to show fewer tests carried out in 1933 than 1932. This is due practically entirely to alterations in the mode of presentation of figures, chiefly with reference to Widal tests, which were pre- viously reported as separate agglutinations of each of the three organisms, while the present totals show a single test for each serum. This alone makes a difference of 1,828 tests. There are other minor charges in the same direction, so that with cor- rections the total for the two years is practically identical. It must be recalled, however, that in 1932 there were three minor epidemics of cholera, cerebro-spinal meningitis, and diphtheria, requiring the examination of unusual numbers of faeces, spinal fluids, and throat swabs. That the total number of examina- tions remains practically the same shows that the regular routine work has increased steadily. Probably the greatest increase is shown in serological work, about 2,000 more sera having been examined this year. The number of blood smears examined for malarial parasites is also very much greater.
The work of the staff is satisfactory and the usual high standard of technical efficiency has been maintained.
A.
PROTOZOOLOGY AND HELMINTHOLOGY.
(1) Blood films for malaria.-One thousand nine hundred and ninety films were examined for the presence of malarial parasitęs. A marked improvement has been noted in the quality of the blood films forwarded for examination from the hospitals, and diagnosis is much facilitated thereby.
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