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" A good deal of fever was developed in all cases, 

 and sleep was a good deal disturbed. These con- 

 stitutional symptoms had to a great extent passed 

 away by the morning, and laboratory work went 

 on without interruption. . . . With two exceptions, 

 all these vaccinations were performed upon Medical 

 Officers of the Army or Indian Medical Services, 

 or upon Surgeons on Probation who were preparing 

 to enter those services." 



The first use of the treatment in the actual 

 presence of an outbreak of typhoid was at the Kent 

 County Asylum, October, 1897. Before the in- 

 oculations were undertaken, 12 cases had occurred 

 among the staff, which numbered about 200. The 

 group under observation was nurses and attendants, 

 200 in all; 84 protected, 116 not. The protected 

 had no cases : the non-protected had 4. During 

 1899, while Wright was with the First Plague 

 Commission in India, the treatment was given to 

 many of our Army. The group under observation 

 regiments and other units of the British Army 

 in India was 30,353 persons, of whom 4,502 were 

 protected, and 25,851 were not. The protected 

 had 44 cases, with 9 deaths : the non-protected had 

 657 cases, with 146 deaths. Later in 1899, came 

 the instance of the 15th Hussars, at Meerut: 360 

 protected had 2 cases, with 1 death: 179 non- 

 protected had 11 cases, with 6 deaths. In 1900, 

 came the very favourable instances of the British 



