IOR/P/4345 Aug 1893 nos 79-87

pp 327-55. Correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of a Pasteur Institute in Poona:

• Report by Dr Lingard on the unsuitability of Poona's climate, and the necessity of constructing a refrigerated room if the anti-rabic vaccine was to be developed there. Includes details of different methods of refrigeration.
• Discusses the plan to combine the work of the Pasteur Institute with the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, and the apparent unsuitability of conducting research into human disease and providing vacccine treatment in the same facility or vacinity as that for animal diseases; plus the inadvisability of conducting research into the infectious diseases of cattle in the vacinity of a large cattle market.
• Letters from the Government of India to the Governments of Bombay and the Punjab, advising that the work of the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory and the proposed Pasteur Institute should not be combined; that the establishment of an antirabic institution is supported, but that a suitable location outside of the Punjab should be found.