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"The results of Calcutta are fully confirmed by 

 those obtained in other parts of India, wherever it 

 was possible to make all the necessary observations 

 with precision, and wherever the cases were suffi- 

 ciently numerous to show the effect of the inocula- 

 tion. 



" Outside Calcutta, since the commencement of 

 the inoculations in India in April 1893, opportunities 

 for an exact comparison of the respective powers of 

 resistance against cholera of inoculated and non- 

 inoculated persons presented themselves ; (1) in 

 Lucknow, in the East Lancashire Regiment; (2) in 

 Gaya, in the jail ; (3) in Cachar, among the tea- 

 garden coolies ; (4) in Margherita, among coolies of 

 the Assam- Burmah Railway Survey ; (5) in Dur- 

 bhanga, in the jail ; (6) in the coolie camp at Bilaspur, 

 (7) in Serampur, among the general population." 



Here, then, in this 1896 report, are all the results 

 that give an answer to the question, What will 

 happen when cholera breaks out among a number of 

 people living under the same conditions, of whom 

 some have received preventive treatment, and the 

 rest have been left to Nature ? 



1. Calcutta (1894- 1 896). 



" The number of people inoculated during the 

 period under review was 7690 ; of these, 5853 are 

 Hindus, 1476 Mahomedans, and 361 other classes. 

 . . . Considering that the system is a new one, that 

 the inoculations are purely voluntary, and everything 



of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal (1897). Also the note 

 published by Surg&on-Captain Nott, in the Indian Medical 

 Gazette, May 1898. 



