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9th inst., as to handing over this task to the University Laboratory 

 for Medical Bacteriology. It would be possible, of course, to so 

 extend tbe Scro-lherapeutic Department as to enable it to supply 

 the whole country with antidiphtheric serum .... The Faculty, 

 however, as already stated, has scruples about making a proposal 

 to that effect, as such a departemcnt, even though it might be of 

 great importance as an institution for investigation and instruction, 

 would have, as its chief object, one with which the authorities re- 

 sponsible for public health, are concerned; but especially as it is 

 impossible, for the present, to tell how extensive the work of such 

 a serum institution would be in the presence of the rapid develop- 

 ment of experimental pathology. 



The Faculty therefore most earnestly begs to recommend that 

 steps should be taken to found a fully equipped Serum Institute under 

 the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice. 



The future position of the Sero-therapeutic Department would 

 then naturally depend on the position and organisation of the 

 Serum Institute. In fact, for the last four years, the Sero-thera- 

 peutic Department has proved to be of very great importance, from 

 an educational point of view and to the work generally of the 

 University Laboratory for Medical Bacteriology, through the rich 

 material such a department always offers. It would therefore greatly 

 impair the work of the Laboratory as a training institution, if the 

 department was relinquished, unless, at the same time, the Labora- 

 tory was allowed the use of the material of the Serum Institute for 

 teaching purposes. It would hardly be a difficult thing to find an 

 arrangement that would make it possible for the two institutions to 

 work together, although under the jurisdictions of two different Mi- 

 nistries. If such a co-operation was brought about the Sero-thera- 

 peutic Department would, of course, have to be relinquished. 



Both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of 

 Justice being in agreement with this view, the Director 

 of the Laboratory was, in October 1898, asked by the 

 latter to make out a plan for a State institution for pro- 

 duction of antidiphtheric serum. 



Being of opinion that it would greatly advance mat- 

 ters if, at the time of sending in the plan to the Minis- 



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