Daspoort Laboratory : bacteriological laboratory and Rindepest station.

Abstract

In 1898 Arnold Theiler received funds to establish a laboratory on the outskirts of Pretoria, converting the existing unused Daspoort disinfection station for hides and skins into a vaccine factory. Apart from the rinderpest vaccine, vaccines against blackquarter and lungsickness for cattle and smallpox for humans were also produced here.