SOLANACEZ. 591 
Giraud in 1843 met with only one death in fifty-one cases admit- 
red into the Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay ; and in the 
ten years ending 1885, of fifty-nine cases admitted into the 
- same hospital, only two died. ‘This, however, is an exception- 
ally low death-rate. Dr. Burton Brown, of Lahore, records 
__ twenty-one deaths in ninety-two cases. In Harvey’s one hundred 
and twenty-three Bengal cases, twenty deaths were reported; 
and of the Bombay Analyser’s one hundred and thirty-eight 
4 cases, twenty-four died. Here there is a marked difference in 
_ the fatality among cases treated in hospital and the last three 
sets of figures which represent cases referred to the Chemical 
Analysers from different part of the country, many of which 
would probably have recovered under medical treatment. 
From the Reports of the Chemical Examiner, N.-W. Pro- 
_Vinces and Oude, for the years 1879 to 1887, it appears that out 
of 110 cases referred tohim, 9 were fatal. His report also shows 
a remarkable decrease in the number of cases in which Datura 
detected in the various substances sent to him for exami- 
nation, In 1879 and 1880, 20 and 25 per cent. of them contain- 
[this poison, in 1881 the percentage fell to 9 and remained 
t about that figure during the remaining 6 years. 
In Bengal fatal cases of datura-poisoning are now very rare, 
as ‘tm be seen from the following table :— — 
Bae a Re TT 
SEY gee REET 
pres. th 
mber pigs 
Year. . vse ex-| of Da 
ined.  eceatiolle 
1880-81 Pe 0-7 
1881-82 phy. 10 0° 4 
1882.83 210 | None. 
Nine months of 
1883 126 99 
o 4 1 7 | 9? 
234 
e 266 0°4 
