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slaved their strength away, and risked their lives, 

 over the work, like Dr. Alice Corthorn, who herself 

 inoculated some 75,000 patients : or take the little 

 personal experiences such as Major Forman told 

 to the First Plague Commission " Of my private 

 servants there were in all, including their wives 

 and children, 28 people inoculated. There have 

 been no cases of plague and no deaths up to date. 

 There were 3 uninoculated. One was a child of 

 nine years old, whose father refused to allow it to 

 be inoculated. It died of plague 12 days after the 

 other people were inoculated. The other 2 cases 

 that were not inoculated were not so distinctly 

 under my own observation. One was a sweeper 

 employed in the cantonment, and sleeping in my 

 compound ; he, I am told, died of plague some 

 months afterwards. The other was my water- 

 carrier : he threw himself into a well : I was 

 informed that he had buboes and fever, and ran 

 away to escape segregation. Of the 28 inoculated, 

 none died of plague : and of 3 uninoculated, 2 are 

 said to have died of plague, and 1 undoubtedly 

 died of plague." 



TYPHOID FEVER. 



The bacteriology of typhoid (enteric) fever dates 

 from the discovery, in 1880-81, of the germs of the 

 disease, the bacillus typhosus of Eberth. Then 



