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[[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] Oswaldo Cruz Institute - Rio [[/left margin]]
[[red underline]] elevator cage is mauresque [[/red underline]] style. There is a department in which [[red underline]] antitoxin serum [[/red underline]] is manufactured for sale and distribution to hospitals and physicians where a few boys are sealing it in open tubes over blast lamps. The stables in which [[red underline]] the horses and cows [[/red underline]] are housed are [[red underline]] scrupulously clean. [[/red underline]] the floor is corrugated [[red underline]] white porcelain tiles. Stables here are cleaner than any bathroom in any hotel [[/red underline]] I have seen thus far in these latin-American countries.
So is every one of the laboratories. By some incongruous [[red underline]] paradox. The open air [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] den [[/strikethrough]] lunch room in which the research men of the Institute [[red underline]] take their lunch is so over [[/red underline]] run with [[double red underline]] thousands of flies [[/double red underline]]
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that it is almost impossible to eat [[red underline]] without swallowing some [[/red underline]] of them!
Generally speaking the [[red underline]] men working there do not impress one much by their personality Dr. Lutz [[/red underline]] who is one of the best and is at the head of the entomological department looks like a [[red underline]] human caricature intensely pro-German [[/red underline]] altho he speaks French and English. He [[red underline]] looks the personification of clumsiness and pessimism [[/red underline]] Dr. Crowell; formerly working for the Rockefeller Institute in Manilla is studying here (by invitation of the Oswald Cruz Institute and at the expense of the Brazilian Government) a new disease which exists in some parts of Brazil and which has some of [[red underline]] the symptoms [[/red underline]] of the [[red underline]] sleeping sickness of Africa [[/red underline]]