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things are at present it is impossible to prepare and handle vaccine lymph otherwise than in the open laboratory with clinical pathological investigations going on in close juxtaposition. I am particularly anxious that this should be altered, as my efforts to improve the methods of production are to some extent, at least, nullified by undesirable conditions connected with handling the material. In addition is the need for an animal operating room in which vaccine pulp may be removed from calves.
The summary of tests appended shows a large increase in the total number performed and gives some idea of the growth of the work of the Institute. A comparison of the figures for this year with those for 1930 is interesting. The total number of tests performed in 1930 is shown as 10,221 while this year's total is 22,271 and this despite the fact that the method of recording tests has been radically altered so
that many procedures do not appear as separate tests in the present figures which helped to swell the total for 1930. Moreover more rigid standards of work, especially in the preparation of biological products, are being insisted on than ever before, all of which calls for increased effort on the part of the staff. It must be pointed out that this increased volume of work is being carried out in much diminished laboratory space.
The work of the staff is highly satisfactory as usual.
A. PROTOZOOLOGY AND HELMINTHOLOGY,
(1) Blood films for malaria.—Two thousand three hundred and eighty-six films were examined for the presence of malarial parasites.
EXAMINATION OF BLOOD FILMS FOR MALARIA.
PARASITES. EUROPEAN. INDIAN. CHINESE. TOTAL. Malignant Tertian. 22 6 364 392 Benign Tertian 24 9 208 241 Quartan 5 1 74 80 Unclassified 2 1 22 25 Double Infection.. 1 ... 18 19 Negative 316 50 1,263 1,629 Grand Total 370 67 1,949 2,386(2) Filaria.—Twenty-three films were examined specifically for the presence of filaria. No positive findings are recorded.
(3) Faeces. One thousand six hundred specimens of faeces were examined for the presence of intestinal parasites. The presence of the cellular exudate typical of bacillary dysentery was always looked for and reported when present.
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things are at present it is impossible to prepare and handle vaccine lymph otherwise than in the open laboratory with chnical pathological investigations going on in close juxtaposition. 1 am particularly anxious that this should be altered, as my efforts to improve the methods of production are to some extent, at least, nullified by undesirable conditions connected with handling the material. In addition is the need for an animal operating room in which vaccine pulp may be removed from calves.
'The summary of tests appended shows a large increase in the total number performed and gives some idea of the growth of the work of the Institute. A comparison of the figures for this year with those for 1930 is interesting. The total number of tests performed in 1930 is shown as 10,221 while this year's total is 22,271 and this despite the fact that the method of recording tests has been radically altered so
that many procedures do not appear as separate tests in the present figures which helped to swell the total for 1930. Moreover more rigid standards of work, especially in the preparation of biological products, are being insisted on than ever before, all of which calls for increased effort on the part of the staff. It must be pointed out that this increased volume of work is being carried out in much diminished laboratory space.
The work of the staff is highly satisfactory as usual.
A. PROTOZOOLOGY AND HELMINTHOLOGY,
(1) Blood films for malaria.—Two thousand three hundred and eight-six films were examined for the presence of malarial parasites.
EXAMINATION OF BLOOD FILMS FOR MALARIA.
PARASITES.
EUROPEAN. INDIAN. CHINESE. TOTAL.
Malignant Tertian.
22
6
364
392
Benign Tertian
24
9
208
241
...
Quartan
5
1
74
80
Unclassified
2
1
22
25
Double Infection..
1
18
19
Negative
316
50
1,263
1,629
Grand Total
370
67
1,949
2,386
(2) Filaria.-Twenty-three films were examined specifically for the presence of filaria. No positive findings are recorded.
(3) Faeces. One thousand six hundred specimens of faeces were examined for the presence of intestinal parasites. The presence of the cellular exudate typical of bacillary dysentery was always looked for and reported when present.
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