Fourth Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Bureau of Government Laboratories, for the Year Ending August 31, 1905, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Interior (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Bureau of Government Laboratories, for the Year Ending August 31, 1905, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Interior

This gives a grand total of The request for appropria tion for all expenses Of the Bureau Of Government Laboratories for the fiscal year 1906 is United States currency, which is per cent of the total appropriation for all Departments Of the Insular Government for the fiscal year 1905. When we consider the results which can be Obtained by a thoroughly equipped laboratory and the many ways in which this institution already has aided the Government, this charge is certainly a moderate one. Valuable information in many fields has been acquired, given, and published, the public health has been conserved by means of accurate diagnoses of disease, and the serums and prophylactics in daily use have been prepared. The educational value of a scientific bureau and the possession and use of a scientific library can not be underestimated.

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