Wilbur A. Sawyer and Esther Skolfield in the Pasteur Institute of the California State Hygienic Laboratory Rabies Public Health California Sawyer became director of the State Hygienic Laboratory in Berkeley in 1910. The laboratory was responsible for following up on reports of rabies, and, when possible, verifying rabies infection in animals; in this photo Miss Skolfield, one of the lab technicians, is cutting sections of animal spinal-cord tissue, probably for rabies vaccine production. Pasteur Institutes were established in some American health departments and hospitals after 1900 to produce rabies vaccine and treat rabies victims. Some also carried on research. Produced: June 1912 Photographic prints Archival Materials Still Image 1 pages nlm:nlmuid-101584931X27-img 101584931X27 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X27 Profiles ID: LWBBCH No linguistic content Profiles in Science