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The manufacture and sale of vaccine virus, serums, bacterial 

 vaccines, prophylactics, etc., have grown even more rapidly than 

 the analyses, tests, and examinations listed above. The prepara- 

 tion and administration of the Pasteur treatment to persons 

 bitten by mad dogs has also increased. With such a large 

 increase in the amount of routine work during the last few 

 years and with no increase, in fact with a decrease, in available 

 appropriation, there has been time for little other than routine 

 duties, and many of our employees are much overworked. 



Although the routine work of the Bureau of Science has great- 

 ly increased year by year, the number of authorized scientific 

 positions has been reduced by the Legislature, until at the 

 present time there are no positions devoted exclusively to re- 

 search and no time has been available since 1914 for any work 

 that has not had an immediate technical application, and much 

 has had to be left entirely undone. It is impossible for the 

 present personnel to do the work that should be done. The 

 Bureau of Science does not have a great number of specialists in 

 any one activity, and in many cases there is one specialist who 

 does eight or ten different classes of work. There are continual 

 resignations on account of inadequate salaries, and it is impos- 

 sible to retain the employees or to fill certain positions at the 

 salaries offered. The technical research work that is done is 

 carried on as a side issue, taking little or no time from the 

 necessary routine, but resulting in contributions to the scientific 

 phase of the subject. The research men have had largely to 

 give up their time to routine work or clerical duties that should 

 have been performed by additional personnel. In the final analy- 

 sis the completed research problems are the pegs that fasten 

 the shield of industrial development to these Islands. As already 

 pointed out, sources of wealth in the Philippine Islands are being 



