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viz. the

Public building Vaccine Institute which

2.

has just been commenced.

This institution

has its origin following

in the

Janner.

It appears that in

1887 the supply of vaccine

lymph

in the Colony -failed, and that Dir G.- William Des Vaux invited through the public press the attention of private

individuals to its

cultivation.

cultivation in the Co

the Colony

Experiments

made, but the only

were

successful results" "brought to the knowledge of Government

wvere

those

obtained by Mr. Ladds, the Colonial Veterinary Qurgeon.

In the

3.

the supply of

year 1890-

vaccine

lymph

again failed, and in May

the Sanitary

of that year

Board recommended (1)

that a Vaccine Institute be

establishe a