REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY, FOR THE
YEAR ENDING 30TH SEPTEMBER 1931.
The period of the Annual Report was changed under G.O. No. 2516, P.H.,
dated 8th October 1930, from April-March to October-September, and the
last report covered only the half-year from i st April to 30th September 1930.
This report covers the full year—1st October 1930 to 30th September 1931. In
previous reports the scientific portion, Part II, has included much information,
that is, mainly, if not entirely, of interest only to this Presidency. In this report
such information has been removed to Part I.
PART I.—ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL.
STAFF.
Lieut.-Col. H. H. King, M.B., B.S., I.M.S., continued as Director of the Institute
until 13th April 1931 when he went home on leave for six months and six days.
During his absence Dr. C. G. Pandit, M.B., B.S. (Bom.), Ph. D. (Lond.), D.T.M. &
D.P.H. (Eng.), Officiating Assistant Director acted as Director, Civil Surgeon
M.R.Ry. Rao Bahadur T. Sitapati Ayyar, Second Assistant Director, acted as
First Assistant Director and Military Assistant Surgeon. J. H. Theodore, M.B.E.,
D . T . M . , I . M . D . , a c t e d a s S e c o n d A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r .
Mr. Herbert Hawley, M.SC., F.I.C., Public Analyst to Government, continued
to be in charge of the Public Health Section of the Institute in addition to his
own work of Public Analyst, his report for which is attached as a supplement.
Lieut.-Col. H. H. King, attended the Far Eastern Association
Congress at Bangkok on deputation in December 1930.
Dr. C. G. Pandit worked with the Bacteriophage enquiry at Patna on
deputation in January and February 1931.
Civil Assistant Surgeon K. V. Venkatraman, M.D., had six months' training
in the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and obtained the diploma. He
passed the examination with honours.
Civil Assistant Surgeon S. R. Pandit, B.A., M.B., B.S., B.SC., obtained the
Diploma of Bacteriology of the London University and returned from study leave
in March 1931.
Civil Assistant Surgeon Y. S. Narayana Rao was transferred to the Medical
College, Madras, in November 1930 and in his place Civil Assistant Surgeon
N. Seshadrinathan joined the Institute in December 1930.
Temporary Civil Assistant Surgeon G. V. Satyanarayanamurti took a course
in Malarialogy at Karnal in March and April 1931. He was transferred to the
Medical College, Madras, in September 1931, vice Civil Assistant Surgeon
Y. S. Narayana Rao reposted to the Institute.
Temporary Civil Assistant Surgeon M. K. Krishna Menon worked here
temporarily in leave and other arrangements from 13th October 1930 and was
relieved on 30th September 1931.
The Additional. Assistant Surgeon with the necessary staff sanctioned
temporarily for one year from 1st April 1930 for the increased work in the
Wassermann section was continued during 1931-32—G.O. No. 270, P.H., dated
14th February 1931.
The temporary staff sanctioned year after year for work connected with the
manufacture of Cholera Vaccine was sanctioned on a permanent basis with the
addition of one technician—G.O. No. 673, P.H., dated 10th April 1931.
FINANCE.
The financial statement in Table I includes as usual both direct and indirect
charges. The total estimated income is Rs. 8,78,593 and the total expenditure is