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CONCLUSION.
My colleagues, the Professors and the Fellows, have rendered
faithful, intelligent, and self-sacrificing services to the University,
and the results of their work are seen in the continued growth and
prosperity of the school.
I am, with sincere respect,
Your obedient servant,
C. STUART PATTERSON,
Dean.
APPENDIX IX.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE LABORATORY OF
HYGIENE.
The Laboratory of Hygiene was formally opened on February 22,
1892, and a course in Elementary Bacteriology, covering three
months, five days each week, from 9 to 12 A.M., was given, and
attended by five students, three of whom were graduates in medicine.
A course of Lectures upon General Hygiene was given to the first
class in the Medical Department, including one lecture a week throughout
the academic year, a course of Lectures on Ventilation, House
Drainage, etc., was given to the Class of Architects and Engineers,
and a course of Six Lectures upon the Hygiene of Apartments occupied
by the Sick was given to the Training School for Nurses in the
University Hospital.
Bacteriological examinations were made in seven cases in the University
Hospital, in several cases in the Church House for Children
and in the Children's Hospital, and in a number of cases presented
by physicians for positive diagnosis in suspected diphtheria, anthrax
and hydrophobia.
Inspection of premises, examination of water supply, plumbing,
etc., were made in several cases, including an outbreak of typhoid in
a large boarding sclool, and in a village, and advice given in each
case.
Examinations of, and experimental work upon, the milk and tissues
from milch cows suspected of being infected with tuberculosis,
experiments upon the value of certain disinfectants, bacteriological