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Of the 2647 persons treated, 10 had pricked 

 their hands at work in the laboratory, 3 had exposed 

 chance scratches on their hands to the saliva of 

 rabid animals, and 1 had been bitten by a rabid 

 patient. Of the rest, 1886 had been bitten on the 

 -bare skin, and 747 through clothing. 



In 236 cases the rabies of the animal had been 

 proved by inoculation. In 1173 it had been recog- 

 nised by the signs of the disease. In 1238 there 

 was good reason to suspect that the animal had 

 been rabid. 



Of the 2647 patients, in 30 cases the treatment 

 was stopped, because the animals were at last 

 traced, after treatment was begun, and were found 

 not to be rabid. In 65 cases the patients, after 

 treatment was begun, refused to go on with it, 

 and 3 of them died of rabies. In 6 cases rabies 

 developed during treatment ; 5 of them had been 

 very badly bitten about the head, and 1 did not 

 come for treatment till the twenty-first day after 

 the bite, and was attacked by rabies two days 

 later. And 5 cases died of other maladies that 

 had nothing to do with rabies. Setting aside 

 these 106 cases, there remain 2541 cases, with 

 20 deaths = 0.78 per cent. But, of these 20 

 deaths, 9 occurred within fifteen days of the end 

 of treatment, before protection was fully estab- 

 lished. If these 9 deaths be excluded, the figures 

 stand at 2532 cases, with 11 deaths = o.43 per 

 cent. 



