REPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF PATHOLOGY 
The beneficial effect of the increased accommodation given by the new laboratories has 
been very fully demonstrated during the past year. The Corporation of the City of Liverpool, 
and other public bodies, make full use of tlie increased facilities, and the School of Tropical 
Medicine is part of the Pathological Laboratory. The wiseness of devoting the major part of 
the Laboratory to research has been fully demonstrated by the number of senior workers who 
availed themselves of the great facilities placed for the first time at their disposal. Many friends 
of the College have been stimulated to help t!ie work of the Laboratory. 
Dr. Alexander founded the Fellowship which has been named after him. Mr. William 
Johnston has still more recently founded a Colonial Fellowship, available for graduates of our 
Colonial Universities who wish to come to Liverpool to do research work in bacteriology. The 
practitioners of the district are taking more and more advantage of the special facilities offered 
them for pathological diagnosis, and the number of specimens examined has greatly increased 
during the past year. The Royal Infirmary and the Royal Southern Hospital liave made 
arrangements whereby their bacteriological and pathological diagnostic work is done in the new 
laboratories. 
The work of the Pathological School has been subdivided. Each separate department has 
its own Head of Department, and, as far as possible, its own separate service. 
L REPORT OF THE MUNICIPAL BACTERIOLOGICAL 
DEPARTMENT 
The importance of systematic bacteriological analyses of the food and water supply has 
been long recognized ; but the Corporation of the City of Liverpool was the first body in this 
country to appoint, in addition to the cliemical analyst, another analyst — the present Professor 
of Pathology — whose duty it was to make regular bacteriological investigations. Other large cities 
are now following the example of Liverpool, and numerous smaller corporate bodies in the 
neighbourhood of Liverpool already largely make use of the Bacteriological Department of the 
Thompson Yates Laboratories. 
The nature of the work undertaken for the City of Liverpool is as follows : — 
1. Bacterial analysis of all food stuffs sent by the Medical Officer of Health. 
2. Rabies inoculations. 
3. Bacterial investigation of anthrax, glanders, choleraic diarrhoea and suspected cholera, yellow 
fever and plague, and other infective processes where bacterial examination is considered necessary by the 
Medical Officer of Health. 
4. Special bacteriological researches which from time to time may be considered necessary. 
5. Special diagnostic examinations recjuired by the Medical Officer of Health, the City Hospitals, 
or, under special circumstances, by medical practitioners. These examinations include typhoid fever, 
diphtheria, tubercle, &c. 
6. Special investigations in connection with the Port Sanitar)- and Hospitals Committee. 
