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THE annual report of the director of this Institute, Major K. R. K. lyengar, for the year 1933, has recently been issued. During the year under review, 417 patients underwent the complete course of treatment, and 83 underwent incomplete treatment. For the first time since the Institute was opened twenty -seven years ago, there were no deaths from hydrophobia among those treated. The Paris ‘fixed virus' was in use throughout and was in its 912th passage at the close of the year, Sernple's carbolised 5 per cent sheep vaccine being employed. Besides treatment at the Institute, 10,477 courses of anti-rabic vaccine were issued to a number of other centres, together with 22,550 c.c. of vaccine for veterinary use, 335 animals being thus treated. In addition, 298 brains of rabid or suspected rabid animals were examined, and 1,530 specimens were received for clinical and bacteriological examination.
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The Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor. Nature 137, 64 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137064d0
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