The Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor

Abstract

THE annual report for 1931 of the Director, Major Iyengar, of the Pasteur Institute of Southern India, which has only recently been received, states that Semple's carbolised sheep vaccine was in use throughout the year, and that 130,821 doses of anti-rabic vaccine were issued. The number of patients treated at the Institute was 545, and 8,056 persons were treated at the centres. The deaths from hydrophobia in these two groups numbered 7 and 60 respectively, giving mortality rates of 1.28 and 0.74 per cent. Hydrophobia is still very prevalent in the Madras Presidency, no less than 661 deaths from this disease being reported during 1931. The remainder of the report gives a complete analysis of the work of the Institute and of results obtained in a series of statistical tables.