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that in one year, at one Institute alone, there were 

 142 patients in class A, bitten by animals that were 

 proved, by the unanswerable test of inoculation, to 

 have been rabid ; and 1 death. And every year the 

 same thing ; and in all the twelve years together, 

 2872 such cases (A) and 20 deaths — a mortality not 

 of 10 per cent., but of less than 1 per cent. 



1. Athens. 



The Annates de £ Institut Pasteur, June 1898, 

 contain Dr Pampoukis' report of three years' work 

 at the Hellenic Institute, from August 1894 to 

 December 1897. During this period 797 cases 

 were treated — 590 male and 207 female. The 

 animals that bit them were — dogs, 732 ; cats, 34 ; 

 wolf, 1 ; other animals, 13; and the 17 other 

 patients had been exposed to infection from the 

 saliva of hydrophobic patients. Of the 797 cases, 

 245 were of class A, 112 B, and 440 C. 



" Among the 797 persons treated, there are 2 

 deaths, one in class B and the other in class C. 

 Thus the mortality has been 0.25 per cent. Besides 

 these 2 who died of rabies there are 5 more, in 

 whom the first signs of rabies showed themselves in 

 less than fifteen days after the last inoculation. 



11 Finally, beside these 797 cases, there is 1 

 other case, bitten by a wolf, in which the treatment 

 failed. If we reckon this last case in the statistics 

 of mortality, we have 3 deaths in 798 cases = 

 0.37 per cent. 



" Beside these 798 cases treated at the Institute, 



