# APPENDIX A.
# GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
## Report for the year 1935.
By A. V. GREAVES, M.B. (TOR.), M.C.P. & S., (Ont.), D.T.M., (Liverpool).
### Introductory.
(1) Administrative.--Dr. R. S. Begbie, Assistant Government Bacteriologist, was away on long leave from January 12th to November 14th. His duties at Victoria Mortuary were performed by Dr. G. I. Shaw, Medical Officer-in-Charge, Victoria Gaol.
(2) Buildings and Equipment.--(a) Consideration has been given for a long time to the problem of providing more laboratory space at the Institute but owing to difficulties in finding room on the present site, no actual addition was found feasible. The problem was partially solved this year by converting the media and sterilizing room on the ground floor into a replica of the laboratory workroom adjacent to it and turning a room in the basement formerly used for stores into a sterilizing and media making laboratory. The basement is far from ideal for the purpose but will answer nevertheless, while the extra laboratory space obtained on the ground floor is a great boon to us. By some re-arrangement generally we are to a large extent confining the routine work in clinical pathology to the two laboratories on the ground floor and utilizing the upstairs laboratory for serology, vaccine making, lymph work, etc. This does away with a good deal of running up and down stairs on the part of the staff.
Certain alterations to the building were also made for the better accommodation of the Malariologist Bureau; these include the conversion of a portion of the eastern verandah to laboratory use, and the fitting up of a portion of the basement as a photographic dark room.
(b) Additions to the permanent equipment during 1935 include a Cenco Vacuum Pump and a large Seitz filter. Besides other uses these pieces of apparatus will be invaluable in the routine preparation of anti-meningococcic serum.
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APPENDIX A.
GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE.
Report for the year 1935.
By A. V. GREAVES, M.B. (TOR.), M.C.P. & S., (Ont.), D.T.M., (Liverpool).
Introductory.
(1) Administrative.--Dr. R. S. Begbie, Assistant Govern- ment Bacteriologist, was away on long leave from January 12th to November 14th. His duties at Victoria Mortuary were performed by Dr. G. I. Shaw, Medical Officer-in-Charge, Victoria Gaol.
(2) Buildings and Equipment.-(a) Consideration has been given for a long time to the problem of providing more laboratory space at the Institute but owing to difficulties in finding room on the present site, no actual addition was found feasible. The problem was partially solved this year by converting the media and sterilizing room on the ground floor into a replica of the laboratory workroom adjacent to it and turning a room in the basement formerly used for stores into a sterilizing and media making laboratory. The basement is far from ideal for the purpose but will answer nevertheless, while the extra laboratory space obtained on the ground floor is a great boon to us. By some re-arrangement generally we are to a large extent confining the routine work in clinical pathology to the two laboratories on the ground floor and utilizing the upstair laboratory for serology, vaccine making, lymph work, etc. This does away with a good deal of running up and down stairs on the part of the staff.
Certain alterations to the building were also made for the better accommodation of the Malariologist Bureau; these include the conversion of a portion of the eastern verandah to laboratory use, and the fitting up of a portion of the basement as a photo- graphic dark room.
(b) Additions to the permanent equipment during 1935 include a Cenco Vacuum Pump and a large Seitz filter. Besides other uses these pieces of apparatus will be invaluable in the routine preparation of anti-meningococcic serum.
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