Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-05
NEW LABORATORY
TO GUARD HEALTH
States New Equipment Ex-
pected To Save Many
Lives in Future
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter HOteS
NV 4. e., ma SK ERVILu


Raleigh, June 5-The new and MOD
ern laboratory building for the State
Board of Health, to be built soon at
cost of 100000 will fill tremendous
need and be the means of saving thou
sands of additional lives and millions
of dollars, according to DR.. john II.
Hamilton, director of the division OF
laboratories. For more than three
years DR.. Hamilton has been working
constantly and untiringly to secure
the new laboratory building, since the
division he heads has long since out
grown the old building.
"While the laboratory of hygiene
has with its present limited space
and facilities supplied at least $4,000
600 worth of serums and vacclnes
year to the people of the State free of
charge and at a cost to the State of
only $115,O00 year, the demands have
long since been far greater than we
could meet" said DR.. Carl V. Rey-
nolds, State health officer. 1--WE feel
that the new building will enable the
division to provide still greater SER
vice to the public in the prevention
of disease and in safeguarding chill
dren from contagious diseases"
In addition to the new laboratory
building, the division will also have a
farm located outside the city limits,
on which the many horses, sheep, rab-
bits and other animals used in MAX
ing the serums and vaccines will be
kept, DR.. Hamilton said. Request
has already been made of the. State
Highway and Public Works Commits
81 Fl, 70.
but the commission has not yet acted
on this request. The most modern
type of sanitary barns will be erected
for the horses, sheep and other ami
mails used.
A large storage room, the dispens-
ing rom and a large cold storage room
for the storing of serums, vaccines
and biologics, will be o! the first floor
of the new building, also a students
laboratory, a media room for the pro-
duction of cultures and bacteria and
for the preparation of stains and re-
agents used in the manufacture of the
various Serums. Steam sterilizers and
steam and hot air equipment for clean
ing and sterilizing laboratory glass
ware, will also be located on this floor.
Three large laboratories, in addi-
ton to several offices, will be located
on the second floor of the building,
with several smaller laboratories. One
of the largest laboratories will be used
for serum diagnoses, one for micros-
copic tests and third for water an
alysis and archaeological culture
work. There will also be another cold
storage room on this floor, where spe-
cimens sent in for examination, such
as heads of dogs believed to have ra-
bies, can be kept until needed.
Three more large laboratories will
be located on the third floor, in addi-
ton to a library, reading room and a
file room, Dr. Hamilton said One
OF these laboratories will be used ex-,
clusively for the production of anti
toxin for diphtheria, tetanus Clock
jaw and possibly serum for pneu-
monia. In another laboratory vac
clnes will be produced for use in com
batting typhoid fever, whooping cough
and similar diseases for which vac
clnes have been developed. In small
er laboratories vaccines will be pro-
duced for rabies and smallpox. This
floor will also have a cold storage
room.
When this new building is complet-
eo, North Carolina and the State
Board of Health will have one of the
finest and most up-to-date vaccine
and blologic laboratories to be found
anywhere, DR.. Hamilton said