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1898, all the prisoners were paraded, and all were 

 willing to be inoculated. But it was decided to 

 divide them into two equal groups, and inoculate 

 one group. There were 402 altogether : 2, when 

 their turn came, refused to be inoculated : thus 199 

 were inoculated, and 203 were left uninoculated. 

 No distinction was made between the two groups : 

 " They had the same food and drink, the same 

 hours of work and rest, and the same accommoda- 

 tion." The plague did not come wholly to an end 

 till March. The figures, since the inmates of a jail 

 are a shifting population, are based on the average 

 daily number of each group : this was 147 for the 

 inoculated, and 127 for the uninoculated. The 

 figures are : — 



Average Daily Number. 



Cases. 



Deaths. 



Inoculated . 147 

 Uninoculated . 127 



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The Commission draw attention to " the 

 important fact that, during the whole period of 

 the outbreak, the number of attacks among the 

 inoculated was only one-third of the number 

 among the uninoculated ; and that the disease 

 among the inoculated was remarkably mild re- 

 sembling mumps more than plague, though the 

 cases among the uninoculated were of average 

 severity." According to Surgeon- Major Banner- 

 man, the hospital authorities were doubtful whether 

 these three cases among the inoculated were plague 

 at all. 



