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centre fitted with sinks, hot and cold water, and gas ; they are also pro- 

 vided with small cupboards and drawers below, and are modelled after 

 the pattern of the students' tables at the bacteriological laboratory at 

 Berne. The other room is devoted to physical chemical research, and 

 has also complete laboratory equipment and it is proposed will be used 

 later for teaching physiology to students. 



Opposite the students' laboratory is a sterilizing room, fitted up 

 similarly to those in the other parts of the building. 



The remaining room on this fioor is the pathological anatomical 

 museum. Hei-e already there is a fine collection of specimens, and the 

 large glazed cases on the walls are filled witli a very representative collec- 

 tion, amongst which are some interesting specimens of tropical diseases. 

 Tn the centre of the room is a chest fitted with drawers for specimens, and 

 under the window is a table so that work connected witli the museum 

 can be conveniently carried on. 



All the principal rooms are connected with a telephone installation 

 pi'ovided for communication within the building, a matter of great con- 

 venience in a large laboratory where a numerous staff is employed. 



To the west of the laboratory, completely detached, is a separate 

 building designed for the preparation of calf vaccine lymph. This 

 building complete in itself has four rooms ; a large room well lighted by 

 two windows facing the south and fitted with a table is for the vaccinating 

 operations ; a door leads from here into a stable with three loose boxes 

 for the calves, to which also there is an outer door for attendance. In 

 front, opening on to a verandah, as well as connected by a door with the 

 operating room, is the laboratory for preparing the vaccine and filling 

 the tubes ; there is also a small room at the back, opening into the stable, 

 used as a storeroom for forage. The preparation of vaccine lymph is an 

 important branch of the laboratory work, over three-quarters of a 

 million tubes having been sent out into all parts of South Africa during 

 the last two years, and the work is now carried out under the most modern 

 hygienic conditions. 



The situations of the other buildings are seen on the block plan. 



The stables are all built of brick and are lofty and well ventilated ; 

 the mangers are of iron and the stall partitions are made with iron pillars 

 and ii'on frames covered with boarding ; the floors are paved with blue 

 bricks set in cement, and are drained by open channels, which pass through 

 a pipe into an open gulley that runs "the whole way along the oirtside of 

 the stables and discharges through traps at intervals into the main 

 drainage system. The windows are placed high up and are covered, as 

 also are all ventilators, with wire gauze to keep out insects, a matter of 

 some importance for the- prevention of natural infection of horse-sickness, 



