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REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY

STATEMENT No. 10.

Showing Bacterial vaccines supplied during 1923-24.

Serial
No.		 Nature of vaccines. Number of
doses of
autogenons
vaccine.		 Number of
doses of
stock
vaccine.		 Total.
1 Staphylococcus . . . 882 1,371 2,253
2 Mixed Staphylococcus and Streptococcus. . . . 138 132 270
3 Streptococcus for Pemphigus . . . 6 26 32
4 Streptococcus for Pyorrhoea . . . 222 22 244
5 Streptococcus . . . 648 725 1,373
6 Gonococcus . . . 6 3,528 3,534
7 Pneumococcus . . . 609 202 811
8 Bacillus Coli . . . 114 315 429
9 Acne Bacillus . . . 24 113 137
10 Tuberculin B.E. . . . . . . 200 200
11 Old Tuberculin for V. P. Test . . . . . . 363 363
12 Bacillus Pyocyaneus . . . 126 20 146
13 Compound Catarrhal . . . 216 251 467
14 Cholera (prophylactic) . . . . . . 40,964 40,964
15 Bacillus Influenza . . . 36 5,588 5,624
16 Combined typhoid Paratyphoid A. and B. . . . . . . 3,044 3,044
17 Meningococcus . . . . . . 2,360 2,360
18 Micrococcus Catarrhalis . . . 12 . . . 12
19 B. Friedlander's . . . 12 . . . 12
20 Other vaccines . . . 246 . . . 246
  Total . . . 3,297 59,224 62,521

STATEMENT No. 11.

Details of specimens received for examination during 1923-24.

No. Description of specimens. Carried out at the
King Institute.		 .Remarks. Carried out by
Investigation Units.
Number of positive results. Number of negative results. Total number examined. Number of positive results. Number of negative results. Total number examined.
1 Blood films for malarial parasites . . . 28 55 83 . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Do. Lencocytosis . . . . . . 6 6 . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 Do. differential count . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Do Kala-azar . . .. 4 14 18 . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 Do. Relapsing fever . . . 30 61 91 . . . 1,909 581 2,490
6 Sputum, etc., for tubercle bacilli . . .. 9 25 34 . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 Do pneumococci . . . 10 5 15 . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 Do Influenza . . . 2 . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . .
9 Smears for plague (Human) . . . 8 13 21 . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 Do. (Animal) . . . 19 50 69 . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 Smears for gonococci . . .. 5 16 21 . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 Smears for Spirochaetes . . . . . . 10 10 . . . 97 781 878
13 Do. for B. Lepræ . . . 1 28 29 . . . . . . . . . . . .
14 Scrapings from Oriental sore (for
Leishmania) . . . 		. . . 1 1 . . . . . . . .. . . .
15 Faeces for Amoebae and cysts . . . 13 94 107 E. Nana cysts . . . 4 . . . . . . . . .
Coli cysts . .. 13
16 Do. ova of Ankylostomes,
etc. . . .		 1 9 10 . . . . . . . . . . . .
17 Do. Dysentery bacilli . . . 3 27 30 *One was found to be
E. Histolytica.		 15* 138 153
18 Faeces and material for Cholera
vibrios . . .		 5 23 28 . . . 13 51 64
19 Faeces for organisms of typhoid
group . . . 		3 85 88 Paratyphoid A was
isolated in 1 case.		 . . . 1,631* 1,631
* Two showed Morgan
bacillus.
One B. faecalis alkali-
genes.
20 Faeces for Bacteriological examina-
tion for carriers of dysentery or
typhoid . . . 		1 27 28 (B. Dysentery Shiga) . . . . . . . . . . . .
21 Culture from faeces for identifica-
tion of organisms . . . 		. . . . . . 121 . . . . . . . . . . . .