PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND HYGIENE 



ond dose. Careful experiments were made 

 with the Second Batallion of Royal Fusileers 

 in India in 1905 and 1906. The average 

 strength of this regiment was 948 men. Dur- 

 ing the two years, 284 were inoculated with 

 Wright's anti-typhoid vaccine. The regiment 

 had a total of 46 cases of typhoid. Thirty-five 

 of these were men who had not been inoculated, 

 9 had been inoculated. Five of the uninocu- 

 lated died. None of the inoculated died. An- 

 other Indian regiment, the Seventeenth Lan- 

 cers, in 1905, 1906, and 1907, inoculated about 

 one-third of its men. During the three years 

 it had 293 cases of typhoid fever. There were 

 44 deaths, with not a single death of an inocu- 

 lated man. During the first half of 1908 in 

 the largest seven Indian stations where careful 

 records were kept, out of a total of 10,420 

 soldiers, 2207 volunteered for inoculation. 

 Typhoid developed in two per cent, of the un- 

 inoculated and in less than one per cent, of the 

 inoculated men. Forty-five deaths occurred. 

 Five per cent, of these deaths were among the 

 uninoculated ; and one per cent, was among the 

 inoculated men. These reports are given be- 

 cause they represent something of new and 

 hopeful interest. Among the British medical 



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