CACHAR TEA-GARDENS (1895) 201 



At Karkuri — 



198 not inoculated had 15 cases, with 9 deaths. 

 443 inoculated — 3 cases, with 1 death. 



At Craig Park — 



185 not inoculated had 1 fatal case. 

 46 inoculated — no cases. 



Total. 



Not inoculated, 2976, with 94 cases and 60 

 deaths. 



Inoculated, 2381, with 13 cases and 4 deaths. 



To the preceding instances, which are rather 

 old now, must be added the following more recent 

 report, from the Indian Medical Gazette, September 

 1901 : — 



" We are glad to see, from a paragraph in the 

 Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal 

 (Major H. J. Dyson, I. M.S., F.R.C.S.), that an 

 increased number of anti-cholera inoculations were 

 performed during the year 1900. Assistant- 

 Surgeon G. C. Mukerjee, who was in charge of 

 this work, reports that in the Puralia Coolie Depot 

 no less that 13,291 persons were inoculated against 

 cholera, including over 1000 children. All these 

 cases of inoculation were among labour emigrants 

 proceeding to the tea-gardens of Assam and Cachar. 

 The employers of labour are beginning to realise 

 the value of cholera inoculation. It is unfortunately 

 not always easy, or even possible, to follow up the 

 after-history of persons inoculated ; but Major 

 Dyson has quoted a table, received from the 



