Abstract
THE director, Major lyengar, in his annual report for 1936 of the work of the Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor, states that 493 patients underwent a full course of treatment, an increase of 60 compared with the previous year. For the fourth time during the thirty years of its existence, no deaths occurred from hydrophobia among those treated at the Institute. In addition to the treatment at the Institute, 15,302 courses of anti-rabic vaccine were issued for use at out-centres. Semple's carbolized sheep vaccine was in use, prepared from Paris fixed virus, which was in its 978th passage at the close of the year. In addition to human beings, 659 animals also received anti-rabic treatment during the year.
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