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The Early Years
With the transfer of horses to the farm, the Yates Street facility underwent substantial renovation. In Dr. Wadsworth's first annual report, he wrote that
"the work was carried on under the greatest difficulties. Conditions were not even sanitary. The laboratory rooms in the building on Yates Street were small and crowded. Only a part of the building was arranged for work, while the remainder was used for storage and not heated, and without plumbing for water or gas."
In short order, he turned a former storage room into a media production facility (seen here), moved the diagnostic laboratories to rooms more suited for that purpose, created a reference library in the former director's office, and installed new heating, lighting and plumbing systems. The overall effect was to double the space for laboratory work.
The Early Years...
- Introduction
- Antitoxin Laboratory - Yates Street, Albany, New York
- Manufacturing of the diphtheria antitoxin
- Examining the products for sterility and potency
- Production pipeline ended in the laboratory's shipping room
- Single site for all laboratory activities
- Recruiting personnel to staff the expanded laboratory
- New York City's Quarantine Station
- Wish for a farm was granted in May, 1913
- Media production facility
- Dr. Augustus B. Wadsworth and staff