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REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY
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STATEMENT VIII
Details of specimens received for examination, 1921-22.
| Number. | Description of specimens. | Number of positive results. |
Number of negative results. |
Total number examined. |
Remarks. |
| 1 | Blood films for malarial parasites . . . |
35 | 142 | 177 | |
| 2 | Blood films for filaria . . . | . . . | 8 | 8 | |
| 3 | Do. leucocytosis . . . | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 4 | Do. differential count . . . | . . . | . . . | 26 | |
| 5 | Do. Kala-azar ... | 1 | 18 | 19 | |
| 6 | Do. Relapsing fever . . . | . . . | 1 | 1 | |
| 7 | Sputum for tubercle bacilli . . . | 16 | 68 | 84 | |
| 8 | Do. pneumococci . . . | 10 | 1 | 11 | |
| 9 | Do. Influenza . . . | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| 10 | Smears for plague (Human) . . . | 17 | 20 | 37 | |
| 11 | Do. (Animal) . . . | 29 | 72 | 101 | |
| 12 | Smears for gonococci . . . | 16 | 59 | 75 | |
| 13 | Do. for Spirochaetes . . . | 10 | 61 | 71 | |
| 14 | Do. for B. Lapræ . . . | 4 | 13 | 17 | |
| 15 | Stools for ova . . . | . . . | 20 | 20 | |
| 16 | Do. for amaeba . . . | 6 | 39 | 45 | |
| 17 | Scrapings for Orient; 1 sore . . . | . . . | . . . | 2 | |
| 18 | Blood for agglutination test for typhoid group . . . |
356 | 457 | 813 | |
| (B. Typhosus alone . . . 226 | |||||
| B. paratyphosus A alone . . . Nil. | |||||
| B. Paratyphosus B alone . . . Nil. | |||||
| Combined . . . 130 | |||||
| 19 | Blood for malta fever . . . | . . . | . . . | 7 | |
| 20 | Blood for Wassermann re- action . . . |
1,428 | 1,538 | 2,966 | |
| 21 | Urine for Chemical and Bacteriological examination. |
. . . | . . . | 31 | |
| 22 | Culture blood for B. Typhosus. | 7 | 170 | 177 | |
| 23 | Do. for Kala-azar . . . | 5 | 10 | 15 | |
| 24 | Culture and swabs for Diph- theria . . . |
14 | 47 | 61 | |
| 25 | Culture and swabs for Anthrax. | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 26 | Do Cerebro- spinal fluid . . . |
. . . | . . . | 26 | |
| 27 | Culture and knee joint fluid | . . . | 5 | 5 | |
| 28 | Do. fluid from pleural cavity . . . | . . . | . . . | 7 | |
| 29 | Culture for identification of organisms . . . |
. . . | . . . | 93 | |
| 30 | Stools for choleræ vibrios . . . | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| 31 | Stools for dysentery bacilli . . . | 3 | 20 | 23 | |
| 32 | Stools for organisms of typhoid group . . . |
. . . | 6 | 6 | |
| 33 | Urine for B. Coli . . . | 10 | 3 | 13 | |
| 34 | Do. for B. Typhosus . . . | 1 | 13 | 14 | |
| 35 | Do. for tubercle bacilli . . . | . . . | 14 | 14 | |
| 36 | Do. for Gonococci . . . | . . . | 17 | 17 | |
| 37 | Discharge from Conjunctiva . . . | . . . | . . . | 3 | |
| 38 | Catgut for sterility . . . | . . . | . . . | 6 | 1 not sterile. |
| 39 | Field dressings for sterility . . . | . . . | . . . | 3 | |
| 40 | Tissues for section for Spiro-chaetes, etc. . . . | . . . | . . . | 53 | |
| Total . . . | . . . | . . . | 5,070 |
STATEMENT IX
Showing the quantity of types of serum bought and distributed by King Institute during 1921-22.
| Name of serum. | Stock on hand on 1st Apr. 1922. |
Received during 1921-22. |
Issued during 1921-22. |
Balance on hand on 1st Apr. 1922. |
| Antitetanic serum . . . | 34 | 1,800 | 1,458 | 376 |
| Antistreptococcus serum . . . | 91 | 895 | 762 | 224 |
| Antidiphtheritic serum . . . | 79 | 149 | 161 | 67 |
| Antidysenteric serum . . . | 67 | 83 | 138 | 12 |
| Antivenomous serum . . . | 2 | 78 | 42 | 38 |
| Coleys fluid . . . | 19 | 6 | 3 | 22 |
| Antimeningococcus serum . . . | . . . | 107 | 96 | 11 |
| Antianthrax serum . . . | . . . | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| Total . . . | 292 | 3,142 | 2,664 | 770 |
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