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Thus, out of 28 families, where the protected 

 and the unprotected lived and ate and slept 

 together, the protected, 71, had 3 deaths; and the 

 unprotected, 64, had 27. The percentage of attacks 

 was four times higher among the unprotected ; the 

 percentage of deaths was ten times higher. 



7. Khoja Community, Bombay. 



The head of this community, H.H. Sir Sultan 

 Shah, Aga Khan, K.C.I.E., opened a private station 

 for the inoculation of the community in March 1897, 

 and again in December of that year. He was him- 

 self inoculated three times, and many of the com- 

 munity so often as five times. The work of 

 inoculation went on daily, and by 20th April 

 1898 the number of persons inoculated or re- 

 inoculated was 5184. The whole community, 

 according to a careful census taken at the begin- 

 ning of 1898, numbered 9350; but, since many 

 families had fled to avoid the infection, this number 

 is too low. The Commissioners guess 9770 : 

 HafTkine, to the disadvantage of his own statistics, 

 guesses so high as 13,330. The number of the 

 inoculated or reinoculated shifted, of course, as 

 the work went on : their average daily number 

 during the four months of plague, January to April 

 1898, was 3814. 



During these four months, the number of deaths 

 from all causes in the whole community was 184. 

 According to the average mortality of the com- 

 munity in times of no plague, the deaths from all 

 causes during four months would be 102. It may 



