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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY
B.S.Sc. and Health Officers' class also attended the Institute in February 1929
for a week for training in the manufacture and use of vaccine lymph.
Six visits were made by batches of students from colleges and schools
during the year.
The following attended the Institute to acquire a practical training in
Bacteriology and Public Health Chemistry :—
(1) Mr. Paul Ray, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Lady Willingdon Leper Settle
-ment, Chingleput.
(2) Mr. T. V. Ramaswami Government scholarship students of the
(3) Mr. D. R. Janakiram Victoria Technical Institute, Bombay.
(4) Ch. Appalaswami, attendant, Medical College, Vizagapatam.
(5) Ex-convict Mangatil Moidu for appointment as attendant, Water
Analysis Laboratory, Mettur.
ASSISTANCE TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
Veterinary sera.—There has been further increase in the work of receiving,
cold storing and distributing veterinary sera. Details are given in Table X.
I understand the proposal to install a cold storage plant for the Veterinary
Department is still under consideration of the Government. Demand for human
sera is also increasing and in order to avoid purchasing sera locally too frequently,
a large stock of these has to be maintained. The space available in the cold room
is very limited, and considerable difficulty was experienced during the year in
storing such sera in the Institute. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the
veterinary work is taken off from the Institute and dealt with entirely by the
Veterinary Department with a cold storage installation of their own.
Vaccine lymph .—Regular supplies were made to Secunderabad Cantonment
and the Station Municipality, Bangalore. Supplies were also made to Mysore
State.
Special examination of water-supplies.—Mr. T. N. S. Raghavachari, Senior
Bacteriological Assistant, Public Health Section, was deputed to Mettur at
the request of the Chief Engineer, Cauvery-Mettur Project. Details will be found
in Part II-D. Many special samples were taken and examined at the request of
various departments and local bodies ; these are listed in Table XVI. It will be
seen that the Institute has been of help to many more institutions and local bodies
than was the case last year.
FINANCIAL.
The financial statement in Table I includes both direct and indirect charges.
The total income is estimated at Rs. 13,23,029 and total expenditure at
Rs. 3,73,710. This shows an estimated net profit of Rs. 9,49,319 on the year's
working. This figure is nearly 35 per cent more than that of the last year and
which in its turn was twice as big as that of the previous year. This increase
is mainly due to the large number of Wassermann tests done and water samples
examined and to a further increase in the output of cholera vaccine. As usual, the
work of the investigation units and other important researches carried out are
not considered in arriving at this figure, as it is impossible to assign any monetary
value for them. The figure therefore is the best indication of the very large
increase in the general activities of the Institute.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
1. Major-General T. H. Symons, O.B.E., I.M.S.
2. Dr. Asheshov.
3. Surgeon-General J. W. D. Megaw, C.I.E. I.M.S.
4. Delegates of the Indian Science Congress held in Madras in January 1929.