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REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY

   (3) The out-buildings.—The proposed extensions outside the main
building include the provision of enlarged accommodation for the
scientific stores, and go-downs for inflammable chemicals, etc. A larger
and more up-to-date animal house and a new building for the office are
also badly required.

   (4) Housing for the staff.—The scheme for the housing of the staff
has been, I understand, postponed for the present; but in an institute of
this kind it is extremely important that the staff should live on the
premises.

   (5) Electric lighting, sewage installation, etc.—The scheme for
deriving electrical energy from the Engineering College at Guindy will
soon be carried out. The septic tank installation in connexion with this
Institute is thoroughly out of date, but now that the Water Filtration
Committee is also called upon to conduct experiments upon bacterial
purification of sewage, it is hoped that it may be possible in the near
future to recommend a more up-to-date installation for the purification of
all the sewage from the Institute and improving the sewage farm for the
cultivation of fodder and green stuff for the use of the experimental
animals, rabbits, guinea pigs, and calves.

   An up-to-date incinerator is also urgently required. The existing
destructor is of an obsolete pattern, and perfectly useless, for burning the
refuse; in an institute such as this, a good incinerator for the thorough
destruction of not only the refuse, but also the infected material from the
laboratory rooms, is an absolute necessity.

II. GENERAL.

   Government in their G.O. No. 1421, P.H., dated the 16th October 1922,
having sanctioned the general issue of glycerine lymph throughout
the Presidency, the Institute now manufactures this kind of lymph only.
The supplies of lymph are made to the vaccinators regularly four times
a month with instructions to use it within four days of receipt; this is
with a view to ensure the lymph being used while it is still fresh, and
before it becomes exposed to the temperature of the district for any
length of time. The rotary lancet which was introduced by the Institute
during the previous year as most suitable for use with glycerine lymph,
has now been adopted by the Director of Public Health for general use.
Detailed instructions for the use of glycerine lymph and the rotary
lancet with photographs were drawn up by Col. Cunningham. These
instructions have been adopted by the Director of Public Health and
embodied by Government in their G.O. No. 1125, P.H., dated 6th August
1924. A small portable sterilizer for the rotary lancet has also been
specially designed at this Institute; it has been approved by the Director
of Public Health and recommended by him for the use of the vaccinators.
A revised set of rules is under preparation incorporating the new sugges-
tions, and will be issued in due course.

   As in the previous year there was a cessation of routine vaccination
during the four of the hottest months. The actual programme in this
respect now laid down in consultation with the Director of Public Health
and issued as G.O. No. 687, dated 28th March 1925, is as follows:—