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practically the same. They were intermingled 

 and lived under identical conditions. 



" The experience of Lieutenant- Colonel Sir 

 W. B. Leishman and the inoculating officers 

 lends no support to the view that soldiers who, 

 from their character and habits, might presumably 

 be more likely to incur the risk of infection, present 

 themselves for inoculation in smaller numbers than 

 their more careful comrades. 



" In the opinion of the Committee the substan- 

 tial difference in the incidence can only be attributed 

 to inoculation." 



The Committee make two recommendations. 

 One, that research-work on the treatment should 

 be continued : the other, that 



" Every measure which may be considered practic- 

 able should be employed to extend the practice of 

 anti-typhoid inoculation in the Army. In the 

 opinion of the Committee its universal application 

 is desirable." 



Sir William Leishman, in a letter which has just 

 been issued from the War Office to the medical 

 profession, appeals to them to support strongly the 

 efforts which the Army Medical Department is 

 now making to secure the anti-typhoid protection 

 of our Territorial Force : 



"The benefits of inoculation are so well recog- 

 nized in the regular forces that we find little 

 difficulty, in foreign stations, in securing volunteers 

 for inoculation ; for instance, about 93 per cent, of 



