CHOLERA, PLAGUE, TYPHOID FEVER 131 



Garrison in Egypt and Cyprus, and of the patients 

 in Richmond Asylum, Dublin. 



In October, 1899, began the War in South 

 Africa. Here, we have Colonel Simpson's Medical 

 History of the South African War, and the 

 Report, after the War, of the Committee on 

 Field Sanitation. The protective treatment, in 

 1899, was still an imperfect instrument : it was put 

 to a very severe test, under conditions of terrible 

 hardship : we may fairly wonder, not that it did 

 not achieve more, but that it achieved so much. 

 The figures given by Colonel Simpson will be 

 found over-page. 



Sir William Leishman, after a critical commen- 

 tary on the results obtained in the War, and on 

 certain factors unfavourable to the success of the 

 treatment, says, " It is noteworthy that, in spite of 

 all these factors, the general analysis of the results 

 should show that typhoid was twice as common in 

 the non-inoculated as in the inoculated, and, in my 

 opinion, it is even more striking that, in every 

 corps, without exception, the ratio should have 

 been in favour of inoculation." 



It is fifteen years since the South African War : 

 let us take some events of less age. The Govern- 

 ment of the United States, in the autumn of 1911, 

 made the treatment compulsory, in the United States 

 Army, on all officers and men under forty-five years 



