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by the Plague Commission, are, among the inocu- 

 lated, i case, which recovered ; among the un- 

 inoculated, 7 cases, with 2 deaths. 



For a full and severe examination of the reports, 

 statistics, and other evidence concerning this and 

 other outbreaks in which preventive inoculations 

 were made, the Report (1901) of the Indian Plague 

 Commission must be studied. The Commissioners, 

 Professor T. R. Fraser, Mr J. P. Hewett, Professor 

 A. E. Wright, Mr A. Cumine, Dr RufTer, and Mr 

 C. J. Hallifax, Secretary, travelled and took evi- 

 dence in India from November 1898 to March 

 1899 : during which time they held 70 sittings and 

 examined 260 witnesses, some at great length. 

 The evidence and the report are published in five 

 large volumes. The report, 540 pages in all, deals 

 exhaustively with the whole subject. It represents 

 the very least — what might almost be called the 

 very worst — that can be said of Haffkine's fluid : 

 and, of course, it reads rather differently from the 

 reports of the men who, with their lives in their 

 hands, and worked almost past endurance, fought 

 plague themselves. The following paragraphs give, 

 so far as possible, the bare facts of various out- 

 breaks of the disease in 1897-99, in which Haff- 

 kine's fluid was used. 



1. Da7nan. 



Plague broke out in Daman, a town in Portu- 

 guese territory, north of Bombay, and in constant 

 communication with Bombay by sea, in March 1897. 

 By the end of the month, when a Government 



