2 LABORATORY REGULATIONS 



5. All instruments must be flamed, boiled, or otherwise dis- 

 infected immediately after use. 



6. Labels must be moistened with water, and not by the mouth. 



7. All disused cover-glasses, slides, and pipettes after use in 

 handling infectious material, etc., must be placed in 2 per cent, 

 lysol solution. A vessel is supplied on each bench for this 

 purpose. 



8. All plate and tube cultures of pathogenic organisms when 

 done with, must be placed for immediate disinfection in the boxes 

 provided for the purpose. 



9. No fluids are to be discharged into sinks or drains unless 

 previously disinfected. 



10. Animals are to be dissected only after being nailed out on 

 the wooden boards, and their skin thoroughly washed with 

 disinfectant solution. 



11. Immediately the post-mortem examination is completed 

 each cadaver must be placed in the zinc animal-box without 

 removing the carcase from, the post-mortem board and the cover 

 of the box replaced, ready for carriage to the destructor. 



12. Dead animals, when done with, are cremated in the destruc- 

 tor, and the laboratory attendant must be notified when the bodies 

 are ready for cremation. 



13. None of the workers in the laboratory are allowed to enter 

 the animal houses unless accompanied by the special attendant 

 in charge, who must scrupulously observe the same directions 

 regarding personal disinfection as the workers in the laboratories. 



14. No cultures are to be taken out of the laboratory without 

 the permission of the head of the Department. 



15. All accidents, such as spilling infected material, cutting 

 or pricking the fingers, must be at once reported to the bacteri- 

 ologist in charge. 



