The Early Years
Recruiting excellent personnel to staff the expanded laboratory was uppermost in Commissioner Porter's mind when, in writing the Civil Service Commission in 1906, he urged that "the power of initiation" was the most important qualification for scientific assistants.
An assistant bacteriologist would soon prove his point by undertaking the redesign of syringes distributed with diphtheria antitoxin; the existing ones had proved troublesome, as over time the rubber stopper stuck to the glass tube and could not easily be dislodged.
In the same period, laboratory staff were called upon to share their expertise in the Department's Sanitary Institute, the first school for health officers in the U.S. By 1909, there were 15 week-long courses, which included lectures, demonstrations and laboratory exercises.
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