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whose father refused to allow it to be inoculated. 

 It died of plague 12 days after the other people 

 were inoculated. The other 2 cases that were not 

 inoculated were not so distinctly under my own 

 observation. One was a sweeper employed in the 

 cantonment, and sleeping in my compound : he, I 

 am told, died of plague some months afterwards. 

 The other was my water-carrier : he threw himself 

 into a well : I was informed that he had buboes and 

 fever, and ran away to escape segregation. Of the 

 28 inoculated, none died of plague : and of 3 un- 

 inoculated, 2 are said to have died of plague, and 1 

 undoubtedly died of plague.' " 



" Regarding the second group of which he gave 

 us particulars, Major Forman said that, out of 90 

 hospital servants, 87 were inoculated. Of the 

 inoculated persons, 1 died from fever and endo- 

 carditis, and 1 died of plague. Excepting these 

 two, the rest of the inoculated were alive and well in 

 March 1899. Only 3 persons remained un- 

 inoculated. Of these, one was not operated upon, 

 because she had recently been delivered ; another 

 was not operated upon, because she was pregnant ; 

 and the third was a boy of 16 years of age, whose 

 father refused to let him be inoculated. The boy 

 died of plague, two months after the inoculation of 

 the rest of the hospital servants had been done. 

 One of the two uninoculated women died of plague 

 two days after the boy, she having been in attend- 

 ance upon him. The other uninoculated woman 

 remained well." 



5. The Umarkhadi Jail, Bombay. 



Plague broke out in this jail on the last day of 

 1897, and 3 prisoners died. Next day, 1st January 



