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the British garrison of India have been protected 

 by inoculation : and typhoid fever, which used to 

 cost us from 300 to 600 deaths annually, was last 

 year responsible for less than 20 deaths. 



" Inoculation was made compulsory in the 

 American army in 1911, and has practically 

 abolished the disease. In 1913, there were only 

 3 cases and no deaths in the entire army of over 

 90,000 men."- -British Medical Journal, August 22, 

 1914. 



A very notable instance of the value of anti- 

 typhoid treatment was published in the British 

 Medical Journal of June 6, 1914 : " In the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway camps in the province 

 of Alberta, anti-typhoid vaccination has been 

 extensively carried out of late, under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. H. G. Mackid. The results have 

 been most encouraging ; for, in 1911, among 5,500 

 men who were inoculated, 2 only contracted 

 typhoid, while of 4,500 who had not been treated, 

 220 fell ill with the disease. In 1913, 8,400 men 

 were vaccinated, and only one case of typhoid 

 occurred amongst them ; moreover, it is probable 

 that the man was ill at the time of vaccination. 

 During the same year, among 2,000 men who were 

 not inoculated, 76 cases of typhoid occurred." 



