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course, mothers brought their children to be pro- 

 tected by the new 'vaccination. 5 " 



Within a few months, 8142 persons in or near 

 Bombay were inoculated. It was not possible, in 

 Bombay, during the rush of plague-work, to follow 

 up every one of these 8142 persons. But there is 

 reason to believe, making some allowance for over- 

 sights, that only 18 = 0.2 per cent, of them were 

 attacked during the epidemic; that, of these 18, 

 only 2 died : and that these 2 died within twenty- 

 four hours of inoculation, i.e., had the plague in 

 them already at the time of inoculation. 



And, with regard to a small group of the inocu- 

 lated, there are the following more definite facts. 

 This group lived outside Bombay, across the 

 harbour, in a village called Mora. The population 

 of Mora, at the time of the epidemic, was estimated 

 at less than 1000. Out of this number 429 were 

 inoculated; which, if the population be reckoned 

 at 1000 exactly, left 571 uninoculated. Among 

 the 429 inoculated, there were 7 cases of plague, 

 with no deaths : among the uninoculated there were 

 26 cases, with 24 deaths. 



Just a week after Haffkine had informed the 

 Indian Government that he had tested his fluid on 

 himself, plague broke out in the Byculla House 

 of Correction, Bombay, on 23rd January 1897. 

 Between the 23rd and the afternoon of the 30th, 

 there were 14 cases, with 7 deaths. On the after- 

 noon of the 30th, 152 prisoners were inoculated, 

 and 172 were left uninoculated. The outbreak 

 ceased on 7th February. The figures, as corrected 



