REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY,

FOR 1926-27.

PART I.—ADMINISTRATION.

(A) STAFF.

        Major H. H. King, M.B., B.S., I.M.S., has officiated as Director throughout the
year.

        Dr. C. G. Pandit, Ph.D. (Lon.), M.B., B.S. (Bom.), D.P.H., D.T.M. ( Eng.), has
officiated as Assistant Director throughout the year and has been in charge of
the Vaccine Lymph Section. From June 1926, he has acted as Professor of
Bacteriology, Medical College, Madras, in addition to his other duties.

        Mr. Herbert Hawley, M.SC., F.I.C., Public Analyst to the Government of
Madras, has continued to be in charge of the Public Health Section.

        There have been many changes during the year in the cadre of Assistant
Surgeons. Civil Assistant Surgeon S. Ramakrishnan was transferred in June to
the Medical College, Madras, as Assistant to the Professor of Bacteriology.
Civil Assistant Surgeon K. V. Krishnan proceeded to America in July on
combined leave for one year and four months having been granted a Rockefeller
Scholarship, and Civil Assistant Surgeon J. C. David continued on deputation to
the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Calcutta. Civil Assistant Surgeon
K. Padmanabha Menon remained on combined leave in England for a course in
Tropical Medicine and Advanced Bacteriology.

        The following were posted to the Institute during the year:—Civil Assistant
Surgeon M. K. Ramaswami Ayyar and Military Assistant Surgeon F. G.
Martin, I.M.D., in April 1926, and Temporary Assistant Surgeons Y. S. Narayana
Rao and K. V. Venkataraman in August 1926. Assistant Surgeon K. V.
Venkataraman took a malaria course at Kasauli in October.

(B) BUILDINGS.

        The building programme was revised by a Committee appointed in G.O.
No. 754, P.H., dated 30th April 1926, consisting of ,the Surgeon-General, the
Director of Public Health, the Director, King Institute, and the Consulting
Architect to the Government of Madras. The programme received the sanction
of Government in G.O. No. 1988, P.H., dated 6th November 1926, but no money
has been provided for major works in 1927-28. It is to be hoped that money
will be provided as soon as possible.

        New vaccine lymph buildings are being built and the construction was well
advanced at the end of the year. The most urgent requirements at present in
about the order mentioned are—

            (1) Alterations to the main buildings and the provision of better laboratory
furniture.

            (2) Improvements to the caged animal house.

            (3) The provision of residences for an Assistant Surgeon, a clerk, the car
driver, an animal attendant, the fitter and the wireman.

            (4) A new stock animal house.

            (5) A new store room.

            (6) A third cold storage room if handling veterinary sera is to continue.

(C) EDUCATIONAL.

        The usual first-class vaccinators’ class was held for a fortnight in February
and was attended by 64 students. Owing to an enlargement of the syllabus of
the Medical College, Madras, the classes in malaria and vaccine lymph manufacture
for the B.S.Sc. and the second-class health officer students that have hitherto