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THE present veterinary bacteriological laboratories of the Transvaal Department of Agriculture are situated eight miles to the north of Pretoria, on a farm comprising altogether some 2000 acres of land. They were ready for occupation on October i, 1908, but, before this time, research in South Africa had to be conducted under less favourable conditions. In 1898, a three-room building of wood and iron lined with brick formed the laboratory, and the equipment of this was “sadly deficient.” Calf vaccine lymph was made here, but the preparation was suspended when the late war broke out in the latter part of 1899. In 1901, the laboratory, after having been used during the war as a stable, had now added to it a rinderpest station for the manufacture of serum, and by 1905 it had grown into a heterogeneous collection of buildings, mostly constructed from old wood and iron, from buildings destroyed during the war. Not only were the buildings unsuitable, but they were also unhealthy, enteric fever constantly occurring among the staff, so that in 1906 it was decided to establish the present laboratories.
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Veterinary Research in the Transvaal . Nature 84, 321–322 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084321a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084321a0