212 BACTERIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE AT LITTLE BAY. 



Before concluding this report I may as well point out in a 

 few words, that I commenced to go to see the leprosy-patients in 

 the Asylum at Little Bay. In blood taken from three of them — 

 two Chinamen, one native of Java — from spots which were free 

 from leprous maculae or tumours, no bacilli were found, whereas 

 in blood or serum derived from tubercles cut across, bacilli of 

 leprosy, either single or aggregated in dense masses or bundles, 

 were abundant. I hope to be able by-and-by to contribute a little 

 to the knowledge of the biology of this interesting micro-parasite. 



