Annual report on the Medical Research Institute / 1909-.

Nigeria. Medical Research Institute.

Date:: [1916]

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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Research Institute / 1909-. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LAGOS. ANNUAL REPORT, 101 <>. The eighth Annual Report is presented herewith. The work done has been described under main headings which will be found in the index. * Dr. Connal was on duty from 1st January until 6th April and from 9th September until 31st December. Dr. H. Sinclair Coghill was on duty from 2nd April until 31st December. The post of Laboratory Attendant remained vacant throughout the year. There were no changes in the native stall'. It was again a privilege to undertake the medical supervision of the adjacent Lunatic and Leper Asylums. Meteorological records, which were taken dailv, and the bacteriological analyses of the Lagos Water Supply, which were made regularly, are not included in this Report, as the figures can be found in the publications of the Departments concerned. Helminthiasis. It is rare to find a sample of faeces from a native West African free from ova of one or more of the worms Ascaris, Ankvlostomum and Trichuris.