Report on the Working of the Micro-Biological Section of the King Institute of Preventive Medicine Madras for the year 1910 (With Appendices)

S. the Assistant Director was placed on special deputation work to investigate the life history of the parasite causinOriental Sore ". By means of this investigation it is hoped to clear up some of the points in the life history of the closely related parasite of Kala-Azar and the means by which this disease is transmitted. [...] 3rd Both natural...... Macerated.. Negative.... No history of syphilis. [...] That in so large a proportion of the eases the condition was associated with the presence of the organism of syphilis seems to point to this organism being the cause of the condition in most if not all the eases and that the failure to demonstrate it may have been due to accidental circumstances. [...] T. Sithapathi Aiyar L. M. & S. In addition to the large amount of routine work involved in the analysis of water and in the examination of routine specimens the Senior Assistant has devoted a great deal of time to the above noted examinations for the presence of Spirochceta pallida and to the preparation of bacterial vaccines. [...] Half-yearly Chemical and Bacteriological Report on the WateSupply of the Jails in the Madras Presidency for the half-year ending 30th June 1910 being Part I of Appendix.1 to the Annual Report of the King Institute of Preventive Medicine Madras for the year 1910.