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of a building designed for that purpose, on the west walk 
nearly opposite the restaurant. The house, of somewhat 
irregular and pleasing design, contains eight inside pens 
capable of subdivision when required, each having an out- 
door enclosure. The heating plant and the outside fences 
will be added this spring, and the building will be occupied 
before summer. Much needed space in the Antelope House, 
where these birds have been previously kept, will then be 
available. 
A cage for anthropoid apes is now under construction in 
the Monkey House, the glass front of which occupies the 
centre arch of the conservatory. Its completion will permit 
the display of orangs and chimpanzees to better advantage 
than ever before in the Gardens. 
In furtherance of the purpose strictly followed of late 
years, of limiting the occurrence and spread of tuberculosis 
among the monkeys in this building, all the open iron par- 
titions separating the inside cages have been replaced by 
solid ones of wood, and the same change is now in progress 
in the outside cages. A sporadic case of the disease ap- 
pearing in the building will then have little chance of spread- 
ing beyond the cage in which it occurs, the other occupants 
of which, being few in number, can readily be removed to 
the quarantine room for examination. 
It is gratifying to observe that under the preventive 
measures which have been developed since the opening of 
the Laboratory of Pathology, the relative mortality from 
this disease in the Gardens has been reduced to a point 
below that of the human records for this city. 
The Board desires to express its appreciation of the 
interest shown by many individuals, and especially of the 
cordial relations with the Commissioners of Fairmount Park 
and the officers of the city and members of the City Councils, 
which have been continued through the year. 
By order of the Board, 
ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN, 
Secretary. 
