FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917.
Duke of Devonshire Formally Opened Connaught Laboratories Yesterday.
GREAT PUBLIC SERVICE
Ontario Government Has Set Aside Endowment of $75,000 for Institution.
An interesting demonstration of the advances made by science in the prevention of bacterial disease and an inspiring example of private enterprise in public service combined to invest the formal opening of the Connaught Laboratories of the University of Toronto by his Excellency the Governor-General with a significance which impressed itself upon the large gathering of prominent citizens who journeyed out from Toronto yesterday afternoon to witness the ceremony at the University Farm on the York and Vaughan town line. The laboratories and the farm the gift of Col. Albert Gooderham, who, at yesterday's ceremony, hand- ed the title deeds of the entire property to Sir Edmund Walker, who received them for the University of Toronto. The monetary value of the gift totals $75,000, but, as his Excellency and many other speakers pointed out, the value of the pro- ducts of the institution in their relation to the efficiency of the men now in the field, to the betterment of public health, and to the welfare of posterity, is inestimable.
The laboratories have been in operation for over a year, in continuance of a work begun shortly after war broke out, and now supply all the antitoxins used in the the second British Army Corps, which includes all the men of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. It is the only institution of its kind in the Dominion and has already become a formidable though friendly rival of the Rockefeller Institute and the Pasteur Institute. In it is prepared all the tetanus serum, typhoid vaccine, pneumonia serum, Pasteur treatments, and other antitoxins used for the prevention and arrest of bacterial diseases amongst the men of the overseas and home forces, and also in the public health work of the provincial authorities. Antitoxins are also sent out from the laboratories to all parts of the Dominion.