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collateral line of research which may suggest itself in the
course of experimental investigations;
(4) to publish from time to time the results of any researches which
may be of import to the medical world.
6. The general management of the Association is vested in a Central
Committee consisting of 55 members, 25 ex-officio and 30 elected.
7. The Institute is maintained by grants from the Government, con-
tributions from the Indian States, district boards, municipalities, canton-
ments, railways, firms, and donations from the public. Since 1922, the
main source of revenue has been the sale of anti-rabic vaccine to govern-
ment, municipal, local fund, mission, railway and State hospitals in the
Presidency and in the Indian States.
8. The total number of persons treated at the Institute and the centres
from 1st April 1907 to 31st December 1936 was 1,36,097. Up to 1922,
all persons bitten by rabid animals had to come to Coonoor for treatment.
In the meantime, experiments carried out at the Institute had shown that
carbolised antirabic vaccine did not suffer any appreciable loss of immuniz-
ing power in the heat of the plains during the period allowed for its transit
and use. It was, therefore, decided to establish centres for treatment with
the vaccine prepared and sent out by the Institute. At present, there
are 223 centres in the Presidency and in the Indian States.
The present arrangements are that treatment at the Pasteur Institute
is limited to persons from the Nilgiris District and to well-to-do persons
from other districts who prefer to come to Coonoor for treatment at their
own expense. All other persons should go to the nearest hospital in which
a centre for treatment has been established.
9. Statistical figures, collected since 1922, serve to show that the results
of treatment at the centres compare favourably with those obtained at the
Institute. Since 1923, antirabic vaccine is being issued to Veterinary
Surgeons in the Presidency and in the Indian States for the treatment of
animals that had been bitten by or had come in contact with rabid animals.
10. In addition to specimens received for routine clinical and bacteriolo-
gical examination, research work on rabies, malaria, kala-azar, filariasis
and on entomological and other subjects has been carried out by workers
at the Institute and the results have been published in the "Indian Journal
of Medical Research".
11. Since 1918, accommodation has been given to the workers on
nutritional research, financed by the Indian Research Fund Association.
12. The Pasteur Institute of Southern India has kept before it the need
for intensive propaganda work in the rural areas of the Madras Presidency
in order to acquaint the poorer classes with the importance of the prophy-
lactic treatment which is available at the centres for those who come in
contact with rabid or suspected rabid animals.
13. In March 1927, a sum of money was allocated for propaganda for
the purpose of spreading information about rabies and making known to
as large a number of the public as possible how and where persons bitten by
rabid animals can obtain treatment. The Director of Public Health,
Madras, undertook to have the work carried out by the propaganda section
of his department. During 1927-28, there was a fair increase in the number
of patients treated in the Presidency and this was attributed to the effective