Achievements
Staff took considerable risks in early research: investigating plague in India in the early 20th century the method of transmission was established when a female worker put her hand into a flea cage and saw how high the fleas jumped. Joseph Arkwright (great grandson of Richard Arkwright) joined the institute in 1906 and studied typhus by allowing himself to be bitten by infected lice. He survived, two others did not. Other major achievements include:
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