and engineering journal . twatersrand NativeLabour Association (acting on behalf of the mining industryof the Transvaal), for the purpose of carrying out researchesand investigations with a view to the prevention and treat-ment of human diseases. The Institute occupies a com-manding site, in extent just over four acres, adjacent to the wori formerly carried on in t:- G riological Laborat tries of the Transvaal, which, bj virlmen under which it w as foundi d ; [nsl The mosl prominent line rch which, up I has been pursued in the Research Division is that in resof the prevention of pneu
and engineering journal . twatersrand NativeLabour Association (acting on behalf of the mining industryof the Transvaal), for the purpose of carrying out researchesand investigations with a view to the prevention and treat-ment of human diseases. The Institute occupies a com-manding site, in extent just over four acres, adjacent to the wori formerly carried on in t:- G riological Laborat tries of the Transvaal, which, bj virlmen under which it w as foundi d ; [nsl The mosl prominent line rch which, up I has been pursued in the Research Division is that in resof the prevention of pneumonia, I dch, until recently, accounted for mosl of the sickness and mortalityamongsl the native Labourers on the milas well as recent researches in connection with milphthisis and the problem of mine ventilation. Apari from the \\ ork of the Resi ireb D tl fcute, in the Routine Division, carri - out a large amountof diagnostic investigations for hospitals and the medicalprofession, in addition to the usual bacteriological services. The Institute—Looking from the East. Johannesburg Hospital, and hounded by Hospital, de Korteand Joubert Streets, the main entrance (when the fullscheme of the laying-out of the grounds has been completed)being designed to face Hospital Street. The site for thebuildings, which overlooks the central area of Johannesburg,was donated by the Government, whilst the cost of thebuildings and their equipment, amounting to about £45,000,was home by the mining industry. The cost ot mainten-ance of the Institute is home by the Government and themining industry in equal proportions up to a limit of£10,000 per annum, and, in addition, a substantial revenueis earned from the performance of bacteriological and patho-logical services—other than research work—for the Govern-ment, the mining industry, public bodies and the generalpublic through the medium of the medical profession. The work of the Institute is carried on in two maindivisions— Research and R
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