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the Grant Medical College, Bombay, and other 

 members of the College staff. 



On January 23, plague broke out in the Byculla 

 Gaol, Bombay. Between January 23 and Janu- 

 ary 30, there were 14 cases, of whom 7 died. On 

 the afternoon of January 30, the protective vaccine 

 was given to 152 prisoners : and 172 were left 

 unprotected. The outbreak came to an end on 

 February 7. The 152 protected had 1 case, who 

 recovered. The 172 not protected had 7 cases, of 

 whom 2 died. Similar results were obtained in 

 Undhera, Bombay, Kirki, Belgaum, Khandesh, 

 Hubli, Nagpur, Dharwar, and Karachi. Not that 

 the work was perfect : it had to be done under very 

 severe pressure : and, at this or that point, it 

 broke under the strain. But the fact remains, that 

 thousands of lives were saved. Take the Empress 

 Mills at Nagpur: 1,116 protected, with 6 deaths: 

 2,663 not protected, with 179 deaths. Take the 

 houses visited by plague in Undhera : 71 pro- 

 tected, with 3 deaths : 64 not protected, with 

 26 deaths. Take the Punjab villages : the figures 

 are on a grand scale : 186,797 protected, with 814 

 deaths : 639,630 not protected, with 29,623 deaths. 

 Or take, not any elaborate statistics for we 

 all know the old gibe about statistics proving any- 

 thing but take the word of the men and women 

 who bore the burden and heat of the day : who 



