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kept ready to be sent out as required ; adjoining and connected by a door 

 is the packing room, which also opens by a door into the yard. In this 

 room the bottles of serum and other preparations are packed in boxes 

 for despatch by train into the country districts. 



The operating theatre and the post-mortem room are situated at the 

 end of the back wing and are connected by sliding doors; the former is 

 38 ft. X 28 ft., and the latter 29 ft. X 21 ft. The flooring of both rooms 

 is asphalt, and they are well lighted by windows placed high up on the 

 walls. 



The post-mortem room has in addition two large windows on the west, 

 beneath which are slate slabs similar to those provided in the laboratories for 

 microscope tables. Tram lines are laid on the floor which, passing through 

 the double doors on the north side, circle all round the back of the stables 

 and branch off to the destructor. Carcases are thus easily taken from the 

 stables on a truck and brought into the post-mortem room, and, after 

 autopsy is completed, can be quickly removed to the destructor. The 

 truck is so arranged that the four sides fall down to form a table on which 

 the post-mortem examination is made, and they can afterwards be replaced 

 in position for the removal of the carcase. There is a desk for entering 

 in the register at the time the record of each post-mortem, and all con- 

 veniences for the curing and preserving of pathological specimens are 

 provided. 



The operating theatre, in addition to windows on the north and east 

 side, has a large skyhght in the roof with windows on all four sides ; there 

 is therefore an excellent hght in all parts of the hall. Tethering rails are 

 fixed around the walls, and there are two padded boxes for retaining 

 horses under operation, and, in addition to every necessary convenience, 

 a small centrifugal machine with haematocrytes is fixed on the wall, which 

 facihtates the measuring of the blood volume of the living animal on the 

 spot. Double doors open out on the north side towards the stables, and 

 there are two doors on the east side for bringing horses into the boxes, 

 and a small door at the south-east corner leading into the quadrangle 

 yard. 



On the first floor there are six rooms ; the centre room on the south 

 side is a lecture room and library, arranged with benches in tiers facing 

 a'table fitted with a sink and provided with water and gas so that laboratory 

 demonstrations can be made ; behind are the blackboards. In this room 

 there is a large projection lantern illuminated by a seven ampere arc lamp, 

 which is fitted with a projection microscope, and is arranged for direct 

 projection of diapositives by transmitted hght or for projection of sohd 

 objects by reflected hght. 



On the north side there are only two rooms, each 15 ft. X 32 ft. One 

 is fitted up as a students' laboratory with all the necessary facihties for 

 bacteriological work and having four working tables arranged down the 



