3
some instances, the patients had already been discharged from hospital, when the
autogenous vaccine was made available for their use. Bacterial vaccines are, as a
rule, resorted to When ordinary medical treatment fails and patients must realize
that vaccines, even when they prove effective, take time to act and cannot work
with any marvellous rapidity. In all cases it is therefore desirable that medical
men should use their discretion in the choice of cases, confining themselves to such
affections as are likely to yield to vaccines and such persons as are likely to
persevere with their use. A list of autogenous vaccines made during the year is
given in Table IV.
TABLE IV.
Autogenous vaccines made in the year 1920.
Class of cases.
Number of
vaccines
made.
Result.
Cured.
Improved. No effect.
Not
used
or not
reported.
Furunculosis . . .
16
6
2
1
7
Eczema, pemphigus and skin eruptions . . .
42
12
5
2
23
Abscesses, carbuncles and cellulitis . . .
33
8
3
1
21
Septic wounds and sinuses . . .
7
1
. . .
1
5
Pyorrhœa alveolaris . . .
25
1
1
1
22
Inflammation of the mouth, throat, nose, ear and con
-
j u n c t i v æ . . .
47
2
6
1
38
Asthma, bronchitis and lung affections . . .
56
5
6
2
43
Diseases of the urinary tract
. . .
40
8
7
3
22
Miscellaneous . . .
14
2
1
2
9
Total . . .
280
45
31
14
190
The issue of sera purchased and stored in the Refrigerator showed an increase
over previous years, the total number of bottles issued being 1,455 as against
1,261 in the previous year—vide Table V. The procedure adopted in the purchase
and the supply of these sera to different institutions and individuals, was simplified
by the system adopted at the instance of the Accountant-General, whereby the cost
of the sera purchased either locally or from England was met from the Institute
Budget and recoveries of cost of bottles supplied were made only from private
individuals and municipal and local fund institutions, Government institutions
being supplied free of cost. Unnecessary duplication of work in the matter of
adjustment of cost of supplies to Government institutions was thus prevented.
TABLE V.
No.
N a m e o f s e r u m .
Stock on
hand on
1st Jan. 1920.
Received
during
the year.
Sent out
during
the year.
Balance on
hand on
1st Jan. 1921.
1 Anti-streptococcus serum . . .
208
474
500
182
2 Anti-tetanic serum . . .
241
832
813
260
3 Anti-diphtheritic serum . . .
67
100
62
105
4 Anti-dysenteric serum . . .
96
. . .
20
76
5 Anti-venomous serum . . .
6
61
57
10
6 Coley's fluid . . .
22
. . .
3
1 9
Total . . .
640
1,467
1,455
652
(2) Bacteriological Examination of Specimens.
There was an increase of over 38 per cent over the previous year in the number
of specimens received and examined during the year under report—vide Table VI.
The increase was mainly under the head of Wasserman tests and was evidently
due to the concession granted by Government under G.Os.Mis. No. 405, Medical,
dated 30th July 1920, and Mis. No. 303, Medical, dated 17th June 1920, whereby
specimens of venereal origin sent from charitable mission hospitals and dispen
- s a r i e s a n d b y m e d i c a l w o m e n w h o h a d c o m p l e t e d a c o u r s e o f t r a i n i n g a t D e o l a l i ,
were examined by the Institute free of charge.