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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY

predecessor Dr. Turkhud and myself wish to thank them. From his long
experience of twenty-three years in the manufacture of vaccine lymph, the services
of Khan Sahib Muhammad Oomar Sahib Bahadur have been exceptionally valuable
in the output of vaccine lymph and in the maintenance of its potency.

   Alterations to the main buildings to provide more and better laboratories
and the construction of a new vaccine lymph operation block are on the way, so
that in a year or two the facilities for work should be ample. In my opinion
what the Institute most needs is a Second Assistant Director who will be an
entomologist and malarialogist. Malaria and Filariasis two great diseases of
Southern India that call for further research and surveys, in addition to such
less common diseases as kala-azar and relapsing fever, would provide more than
enough work to occupy his time. Further the coming of another Assistant
Director would relieve the Director of a great deal of supervisory work and of
some office work, and thus help to give him, what at present he obtains with the
greatest difficulty, a little time for direct research.

   THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY,
      31st July 1926.

H. H. KING, Major, I.M.S.,      
Director.