The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-12-06
WORK BEING DONE
DIR, COWARD TELLS OF RESULTS
OF THE LABORATORY.
Efficiency Of Commercial Disinfect-
ants Now Being Sold in the State
ho Toe4o6

TO De IeSLeU.
The report on the work done in
the laboratory during the year was
made to the State board OF health at
the annual meeting Friday by Dr.. F.
A. Coward, director. Some interest
ins statistics are given in the report
lover $3.50 examinations Of all
kinds have been made" said Dr.
Coward. 'The number Of each kind
and the results obtained are set forth
in the attached table "A This ex-
ceeds last years work by over 1000
examinations.
lone hundred and fourteen people
have received immunizing treatment
asainst rabies; one Of the cases de-
IyeIoped the dread disease and died IN
spite of the treatment; this was a
small boy, badly bitten about the
mouth. For the past two months we
have been sending the treatment by
nail to those requesting it, thus per-
mitting home treatment by the fam
iiy physician. No bad results have
been reported from patients thus
treated.
The preparation and distribution
Of typhoid bacterin was begun on Au-
gust IS. Since that time 1900 in
munizing doses nave been sent out
no untoward results, infection or Sc
we're reaction has been reported from
! the use of this vaccine. The con-
tainer now used has not proved en-
t,rely satisfactory, and better one
will be adopted during the coming
year.
"The method Of technique of pre-
pairing the vaccine is patterned after
that of the army medical school at
Wsshing ngton. The laboratory has been
fortunate in enlisting the services OF
J. R. Cain. To his painstaking and
careful work the success Of the years
routine work is largely due. Arthur
Williams has also rendered much
needed help with the hookWorm dl-
agnoses.
For the assistance Of these gen
tiemen We are indebted, to the Rocke-
feller sanitary commission, without
whose aid their employment would
not have been possible.
at is the intention of the director
to make a through test of the effi-
cheney Of commercial disinfectants
now being sold in South Carolina,
and to issue a bulletin showing the
results Of these tests. Much fraud is
now being practiced in connection
with the exploiting and selling OF
such goods. The time has come
wien your board must take def
mite stand as to the value or worth
lessness of these products.
The yearly increase in diagnos-
tic work at the laboratory leads me
to suggest that all municipalities es-
tablish diagnosis laboratories. These
can be managed at moderate expense
if the work be confined strictly to
board of health work. 1t is our in
tention to issue a bulletin giving a
list of necessary apparatus, the cost
of same and methods and iormulae
for the various tests. Then course
Of three or four weeks free instruc-
ton will be offered at our laboratory
to prepare men to conduct such local
la laboratories, each municipality being
allowed to send one applicant and to
provide him with the proper creden-
tials.
This will give the laboratory at
| Columbia more time for research and
experiment work on some of our
en- demic, unconquered diseases. For
many courtesies and much assistance
the director is indebted to the board
of health of New York city, and OF
the city of Charleston, and to the
directors of the hygienic laboratory
anu the army medical school labora.
tories in Washington.