THE VACCINE INSTITUTE, BELGAUM.
A RECORD OF ITS HISTORY AND WORK.
BY
R. W. FISHER, Esq., m.b., d.p.h.,
Director of the Institute.
[Received for publication, May 5, 1920.]
History of Vaccination in Bombay Presidency up to the opening of the new Institute.
The necessity for the introduction of animal vaccine lymph, to replace arm-to-arm methods of vaccination in Bombay Presidency, was brought to the notice of the Government of Bombay by the Government of India in the year 1889.
The Sanitary Commissioner for the Government of Bombay, after consultation with his Deputies, submitted certain proposals and reported to Government in 1903, that certain experimental trials with lanolinated preserved lymph, carried out by Captain*[1] F. H. G. Hutchinson, i.m.s., Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Southern Registration District, in the districts under his charge, had given encouraging results.
A scheme was accordingly prepared, and approved by Government, for preparing preserved lymph for use in the Southern Registration District and lanolinated lymph was supplied to the vaccinators in 1904-05.
Hutchinson had taken over the duties of Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, on 21st July, 1902, and continued to experiment with lanolinated vaccine.
At this time there was a controversy going on, amongst those engaged in vaccination work in India, regarding the rival claims of lanolinated, as against glycerinated. lymph. Lieut. -Col. W. G. King.1 C.I.E., I.M.S., (now retired), who was then in charge of the King Institute, Guindy, Madras, was a strong advocate of lanolinated lymph, while
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- ↑ * Now Lieut. Col. F. H. G. Hutchinson, i.m.s., Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
