REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY

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STATEMENT VIII

Details of specimens received for examination, 1921-22.

Number. Description of specimens. Number
of positive
results.		 Number
of negative
results.		 Total
number
examined.		 Remarks.
1 Blood films for malarial
parasites . . .		 35 142 177  
2 Blood films for filaria . . . . . . 8 8
3 Do. leucocytosis . . . 2 4 6
4 Do. differential count . . . . . . . . . 26
5 Do. Kala-azar ... 1 18 19
6 Do. Relapsing fever . . . . . . 1 1
7 Sputum for tubercle bacilli . . . 16 68 84
8 Do. pneumococci . . . 10 1 11
9 Do. Influenza . . . 5 3 8
10 Smears for plague (Human) . . . 17 20 37
11 Do. (Animal) . . . 29 72 101
12 Smears for gonococci . . . 16 59 75
13 Do. for Spirochaetes . . . 10 61 71
14 Do. for B. Lapræ . . . 4 13 17
15 Stools for ova . . . . . . 20 20
16 Do. for amaeba . . . 6 39 45
17 Scrapings for Orient; 1 sore . . . . . . . . . 2
18 Blood for agglutination test for
typhoid group . . .		 356 457 813
(B. Typhosus alone . . . 226
B. paratyphosus A alone . . . Nil.
B. Paratyphosus B alone . . . Nil.
Combined . . . 130
19 Blood for malta fever . . . . . . . . . 7  
20 Blood for Wassermann re-
action . . .		 1,428 1,538 2,966
21 Urine for Chemical and
Bacteriological examination.		 . . . . . . 31
22 Culture blood for B. Typhosus. 7 170 177
23 Do. for Kala-azar . . . 5 10 15
24 Culture and swabs for Diph-
theria . . .		 14 47 61
25 Culture and swabs for Anthrax. 1 2 3
26 Do Cerebro-
spinal fluid . . .		 . . . . . . 26
27 Culture and knee joint fluid . . . 5 5
28 Do. fluid from pleural cavity . . . . . . . . . 7
29 Culture for identification of
organisms . . .		 . . . . . . 93
30 Stools for choleræ vibrios . . . 1 5 6
31 Stools for dysentery bacilli . . . 3 20 23
32 Stools for organisms of typhoid
group . . .		 . . . 6 6
33 Urine for B. Coli . . . 10 3 13
34 Do. for B. Typhosus . . . 1 13 14
35 Do. for tubercle bacilli . . . . . . 14 14
36 Do. for Gonococci . . . . . . 17 17
37 Discharge from Conjunctiva . . . . . . . . . 3
38 Catgut for sterility . . . . . . . . . 6 1 not sterile.
39 Field dressings for sterility . . . . . . . . . 3  
40 Tissues for section for Spiro-chaetes, etc. . . . . . . . . . 53
  Total . . . . . . . . . 5,070

STATEMENT IX

Showing the quantity of types of serum bought and distributed by King Institute during 1921-22.

Name of serum. Stock on
hand on 1st
Apr. 1922.		 Received
during
1921-22.		 Issued
during
1921-22.		 Balance on
hand on 1st
Apr. 1922.
Antitetanic serum . . . 34 1,800 1,458 376
Antistreptococcus serum . . . 91 895 762 224
Antidiphtheritic serum . . . 79 149 161 67
Antidysenteric serum . . . 67 83 138 12
Antivenomous serum . . . 2 78 42 38
Coleys fluid . . . 19 6 3 22
Antimeningococcus serum . . . . . . 107 96 11
Antianthrax serum . . . . . . 24 4 20
Total . . . 292 3,142 2,664 770