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118 [CHAP. III., PT. I.
The present staff consists of two Commissioned Medical Officers, I. M. S., four Special
Plague Medical Officers appointed by the Secretary of State for India, one local medical man,
two assistant surgeons, seven clerks, seven decanters, one engineer, and twenty Laboratory
attendants. Total 45, exclusive of Mr. Haffkine, who is at present on leave; Major W. B.
Bannerman, I. M. S., holding charge of the Laboratory till his return.
The number of doses sent out up to date is over 1,000,000, and the daily output is close
on 10,000 doses.
Plates 1 to 10 may be of interest as shewing the past and present staffs of the Laboratory,
the different processes in the manufacture of the vaccine, and the operation of inoculation
on a person. As a description is appended to each plate, further comment here is unnecessary.
The present staff consists of two Commissioned Medical Officers, I. M. S., four Special
Plague Medical Officers appointed by the Secretary of State for India, one local medical man,
two assistant surgeons, seven clerks, seven decanters, one engineer, and twenty Laboratory
attendants. Total 45, exclusive of Mr. Haffkine, who is at present on leave; Major W. B.
Bannerman, I. M. S., holding charge of the Laboratory till his return.
The number of doses sent out up to date is over 1,000,000, and the daily output is close
on 10,000 doses.
Plates 1 to 10 may be of interest as shewing the past and present staffs of the Laboratory,
the different processes in the manufacture of the vaccine, and the operation of inoculation
on a person. As a description is appended to each plate, further comment here is unnecessary.
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