Annual General Meeting of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine (with which is amalgamated the College of State Medecine) : June 27th, 1895.

  • British Institute of Preventive Medicine. Meeting (1895)
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[1895]
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Credit: Annual General Meeting of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine (with which is amalgamated the College of State Medecine) : June 27th, 1895. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fnp Circulation among the Membeps of the Institute. Annual General Meeting OF THE British S^nstitute of ^repentive /Ihebicine, (With which is amalgamated the College of State Medicine), JTJNE 27tbi, 189B. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. The Council have the honour to report that in accordance with the Special Resolution passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting, held on June iith, 1894, and confirmed at an Extraordinary General Meeting on June 29th, 1894, the number of the Members of the Council has been increased from 24 to 27, and the following new Members have been elected :— ^ ns7- 1 Representing Members of the 25. I HE Duke of Westminster f ^ Institute 26. Mr. Charles William Harrison! , • r 1 [ Representing the Worshipful ,, I Company of Grocers. 27. Mr. Frank Pownall j ^ ^ The total amount of Donations, &c., received during the past year is ^^30,583 i6s., including ^26,352 13s. lod., the balance of the Berridge Legacy, which has been made over by the Trustees to the Institute for the purpose of establishing a Water Laboratory; Donations to the General Fund, ^1,515 los., including ^105 from the Merchant Taylors’ Company ; ;^i05 from the Fishmongers’ Company ; ^525 from the Mercers’ Company, and .^^500 from the Skinners’ Company; and Donations to the Antitoxin Fund, ^1,184 9s. 6d. The work on the foundations of the New Building on the Chelsea Embankment has been carried on during the year, but owing partly to the great depth to which the contractors have had to go, and to the long frost in the winter, the progress has been slow. In August last the Director, with the approval of the Council, commenced the preparation of Antitoxin for Diphtheria, and the demand for it soon became so great that it was found necessary to rent a farm for the purpose. “ The Poplars’’ Farm, at Sudbury, was taken in December from Mr. T. J. Sivell, whose lease still had eleven years to. run, and for which the Institute agreed to pay ;^8oo, together with an annual rent of .^130. A Laboratory has been fitted up there, and Diphtheria Antitoxin is now being supplied at the rate of about 1,500 tubes every month, in addition to a certain quantity of Tetanus Antitoxin. It is anticipated that if the demand for the Diphtheria Antitoxin in its present form is maintained, the establishment at Sudbury will be self-supporting. Dr. Bertram Hunt has, till very recently, carried on the Laboratory work at Sudbury, under the superintendence of the Director, at a salary of ;^i5o per annum. Dr. Richard Hewlett has been appointed Assistant in the Bacteriological Department, at a salary of .;^ioo per annum. JOSEPH LISTER, Chaif man. %