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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY

TABLE X—cont.

Miscellaneous Supplies, 1926-27—cont.

No. Description. Total quantity suppled.
  Bacterial cultures.—cont.  
  LB. OZ.
32. B. dysenteriae Y . . . 1  
33. B. Do. shiga . . . 5
34. B. faecalis alkaligenes . . . 1
35. B. proteus vulgaris . . . 1
  Glass material.  
36. Sterilized test tubes . . . 268
37. Faeces tubes (sterilized) . . . 908
38. Sterilized flasks in different sizes . . . 12
39. Petri dishes 4 x ½ (sterilized) . . . 39
40. Vaccine capsules (big and small) . . . 53,908
41. Wrights do. . . . 4,176
42. Spreaders . . . 2,855

TABLE XI.

Details of Specimens received for Examination, 1926-27.

No. Description. Number
examined.
Number
positive.
Remarks.
1 Blood films for malaria parasites . . . 86 34  
2 Do. leucocytosis . . . 13 4
3 Do. differential count . . . 27 . . .
4 Do. kala-azar . . . 2 . . .
5 Do. relapsing fever . . . 6 2
6 Do. leptospira . . . 8 . . .
7 Do. filaria . . . 3 . . .
8 Blood for aggulutination test for typhoid group. 2,997 776 B. typhosus alone . . . 504
B. para typhosus A . . . 11
Do. B . . . 9
Do. C . . . 5
To more than one organism. 247
9 Do. Malta fever . . . 32 2  
10 Do. dysentery group . . . 45 29 Positive to shiga and flexner
both . . .
10
Positive to shiga, negative to
flexner . . .
16
Positive to flexner, negative
to shiga . . .
3
11 Do. B. Coli Communis (Escherich) . . . 22 . . .  
12 Do. B. Fæcalis alkaligenes . . . 16 . . .
13 Do. B. Coli . . . 30 2
14 Culture of blood for B. typhosus . . . 692 130 B. typhosus positive . . . 121
B. para A. . . 8
B. para C . . . 1
15 Do. kala-azar . . . 32 3  
16 Blood for Formolgel test for kala-azar . . . 24 14
17 Blood for Weil Felix. reaction (the test for
typhus) . . .
4 . . .
18 Specimens for
Wassermann's
reaction.
Blood . . . 13,824 5,001 Bloods lysed . . . 173
Cerebrospinal fluid . . . 24 12 Anticomplimentary . . . 2
19 Blood for complement fixation test for tubercle. 6 2  
20 Smears for plague (human) . . . 7 2
21 Do. (animal) . . . 107 37
22 Smears for gonococcus . . . 13 4
23 Do B. lepræ . . . 23 2
24 Do. Spirochaeta pallida . . . 1 1
25 Sputum for tubercle bacilli . . . 106 12
26 Do. pneumococci . . . 5 3 Type IV . . . 1
27 Faeces for amœbæ . . . 427 22 A histolytica . . . 21
Colicyst . . . 1
28 Do. ova . . . 261 24  
29 Do. dysentery bacilli . . . 1,320 23 Flexner 16
Shiga . . . 3
Bacillary . . . 4