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Details of Urinary Examinations.

Summary of Work performed at the Vaccine Station for the Year ending 31st March, 1915. Calves inoculated . . .. . . . . . . . . .. • • 44 Total for 1914 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..71 Post mortem of calves. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. 44 Total for 1914 .. .. .. .. .. ..44 Cultural examination of lymph . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 80 Total for 1914 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..153 Amount of lymph prepared .. .. 3,205 0.0. (sufficient for 128,000 inoculations). Total for 1914 .. .. .. 14,053 0.0. „ 1.006.480 Amount of lymph issued in tubes .. .. .. 7,919 0.0., equal to 15,838 doses. bulk ... .. .. 3970.0., „ 1.5,880 „ 31,718 „ Total for 1914 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 347,614 „ Typhoid vaccine-Amount issued (at 500 mills, per dose), equal to .. . . 57,292 doses. Tuberculin dilutions . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . 74 Amount of lymph sent out of New Zealand .. .. .. .. .. 2,500 tubes. Bacteriological and Public Health Laboratory, Dunedin. Report, for the Year ending 31st December, 1911, by Professor Champtaloup. This report does not include the work of the clinical and pathological laboratories or the laboratory work in connection with the University classes of bacteriology and public health. On the Ist April the University of Otago took over full control of the laboratory and staff, the Public Health Department and the Otago Hospital Board agreeing to make an annual contribution for work carried out on their behalf. The laboratory is still situate within the Hospital buildings, but during the year the public of Dunedin and Otago subscribed £8,000, which, with a Government subsidy of a similar amount, is to be expended in erecting a complete pathological and bacteriological block on a site of half-acre which has been secured opposite the main hospital building. During the year the following investigations have been continued or completed : (a) An investigation into the type of tubercle bacillus present in the lesions of children under sixteen years of age ; (6) an investigation into the action of sensitized bacterial, vaccines in puerperal sepsis and other conditions ; (c) an investigation into the pathological significance of yeast-like cells in catheter specirhens of urine.

Method. Chemical Quantitative Qualitative ('ult ural What sought Estimation of urea ,, sugar . . ,, albumin ,, chlorides, &c. ,, albumin sugar . . ,, others . . . . For B. coli . . „ gonoooccus ,, B. typhosus ,, others Result. Total. Positive. Negative. L76 .. ! .. . . 64 21 174 71 192 263 50 188 238 29 22 51 987 '180 52 232 3 6 9 6 18 24 80 67 147 Microscopical For tubercle baoillus . . ,, casts, pus, &c. 412 23 105 128 398 138 536 664 Total for 1914 2,063 830