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REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY
2. Eighteen students of the second-class Health Officers and B.S.Sc. classes
attended a course in the process of vaccine lymph manufacture. The course
lasted for one week in December 1922. All performed their duties satisfactorily.
3. Seventeen students of the same class also attended a month's course in the
diagnosis and prevention of malaria which was held at the Institute between
1st February 1923 and 2nd March 1923 in accordance with G.O. Mis. No. 394
-P.H., dated 11th March 1922. An examination was held at the end of the course
at which all the candidates were successful.
4. The plague inoculation class originated in 1918 under G.O. No. 285, Medi
- c a l , d a t e d 1 8 t h J u n e 1 9 1 8 , w a s h e l d m o n t h l y t h r o u g h o u t t h e y e a r . N i n e t y - n i n e
Medical Officers attended this class.
5. At the request of the Lady Superintendent of the Caste and Gosha Hos
-pital, a demonstration in the technique of the Wassermann re-action and the
bacteriological diagnosis of venereal diseases was given to the lady students by the
Director of the Institute.
6. The following medical men worked in the King Institute and received
training in bacteriological methods:
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(1) Mr. Kandaswami, Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Egmore, attended
the laboratory for two weeks.
(2) Mr. G. Macdonald, Military Medical Student, Medical College, Madras,
attended for three months.
(3) Military Assistant Surgeon M. Godfrey, I.M.D., attended for two
months.
(4) Dr. Stewart, one of the Medical Officers of the Kolar Gold Fields,
attended for about two months.
(5) Sub-Assistant Surgeon Chitale, Railway Dispensary, Madras, and
Southern Mahratta Railway, Raichur, attended for 3 months.
and (6) Assistant Surgeon Joseph was given instruction in the staining of
blood films prior to his deputation on duty in connexion with relapsing fever.
7. Sub-Assistant Surgeon P. L. Tampe of the Gwalior State underwent train
-ing in the methods of vaccine manufacture for three months.
8. The Analyst of the Madras Corporation Water-works was trained at the
King Institute for six months during the year under report.
9. Two Supervisors of Water-works, the one from Salem Municipality and
the other from Erode were given instruction for 3 months on the experimental
filter installation. They were also taught the necessary tests to be carried out in
connexion with the estimation of the correct dosage of alum, etc.
10. The following lectures were delivered by the Director of the Institute
during the year:
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(1) "Micro-organisms and their relationship to disease" at the Teachers'
College, Saidapet.
(2) "Relapsing fever" in conjunction with Major J. A. Cruickshank at
the British Medical Association, South Indian Branch.
(3) "The value of bacteriologist to clinician" to the Sub-Assistant
Surgeon's Association, Madras.
(4) "Demonstration of Health Propaganda lantern slides" open to the
general public at which Their Excellencies were present.
(5) "Some observations on dysentery" to the students at the Calcutta
School of Tropical Medicine.
11. At the request of the French authorities concerned and in accordance
with G.O. Mis. No. 1751-P.H., dated 19th December 1922, an exhibit consisting of
12 photographs, the work of the Institute Photographer, illustrating the various
activities of the King Institute was forwarded to the Pasteur Centenary Exhibition
to be held at Strasbourg during the coming year.
VII.—RESEARCH WORK.
Much of the work which has been referred to in the body of the report may
properly be described as research work.