Johnston Laboratories
[3] The Bio-Chemical Laboratory occupies the entire top floor, and consists of four rooms fitted up solely for research work upon chemical problems connected with the various departments of biological science.
The floor of the rooms and the tops of the benches are constructed of polished lito-silo, a material which lends itself well to such purposes on account of its resiliency, warmth, and non-absorbent properties.
This is the first laboratory that has been constructed in Great Britain solely for carrying out research work in bio-chemistry.The department of Experimental Medicine is housed on the first floor.
This room has window benches along the south and east sides, while in the centre are two tables, fitted with drawers, and with sinks at each end.
The intervening portion is divided by a narrow corridor, on the east side of which are (1) the attendants' compartment, with large sink for washing up, shelves, etc., and a large slate on which are placed the autoclave and Koch's sterilizer connected with the laboratory steam supply; (2) the incubator room, which is glazed up to the ceiling, in it are placed the incubator and the hot-air sterilizer, on slabs, and the glass-blower's table; (3) a small room at present used for stores.
A complete outfit for X-ray work is provided; also a small resonator for applying the high frequency current and a large solenoid within which the patient can be placed.
A new model arc lamp for investigating the therapeutic action of light, taking a current of fifty amperes, is also fixed in this room.
The Director's, the incubator, and the electrical room are glazed to the ceiling; the others are separated by screens or cupboards, seven feet high, and the corridor is formed in the same way.
These laboratories will be furnished for lectures, demonstrations, and practical work in the subjects of comparative pathology and bacteriology, and also for the testing of various vaccines and sera prepared at the Institute's Farm Station.
The farm in connection with the Institute is favourably situated in a most suitable and accessible agricultural district in North Cheshire.
It has been provided with laboratories, fitted up with modern scientific appliances and apparatus for the production on a large scale of vaccines and sera.
The preparation of the various sera and vaccines will be carried on at the farm station, and opportunities will be afforded to those interested in the subject to acquire the principles of their manufacture, and also to avail themselves of the practice in veterinary science at the out-patient department shortly to be established.A large room has been fitted in the Thompson Yates laboratories with apparatus for the use of the various research departments.
