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the opinion that individual protection is, on however 

 great a scale conducted, of less importance to that 

 of general protection and hygiene (considering each 

 method separately, that is to say), for it seems to 

 me more radical, if not more rational, to eradicate a 

 disease than to leave it to pursue its course and only 

 protect people against its ravages." 



Sanitation, therefore, was Dr Leumann's faith. 

 Now for his works : — 



" I first started inoculation here on nth May. 

 . . . When I began my inoculations, I operated first 

 of all on some European or native gentlemen in 

 front of a crowd of poor and low-caste people, whom 

 I had gathered together in the worst-affected area, 

 and they were thus soon induced to ask for inocula- 

 tion themselves. . . . They have presented them- 

 selves, by the hundred, at all times of the day, 

 before myself and others, for the purpose of being 

 inoculated. # ... I have never experienced the 

 slightest difficulty in inoculating Mussulmanis or 

 any other purdah women in Hubli. . . . The very 

 men who, in March last, created a disturbance in 

 Hubli, were not only the first and the most willing 

 to undergo inoculation, but also to bring their wives 

 and families to my hospital, or to invite me to their 

 homes to inoculate them. 



" Inoculated persons holding certificates of double 

 inoculation have, at my special wish and order, been 



* Compare the account of the inoculations at Gaday, in the 

 Lancet, nth February 1898 : " To see the crowd waiting and 

 struggling to pass the barrier is a strange sight ; old men and 

 women, young children, and mothers with babes in their arms, 

 form a daily crowd numbered by hundreds, who wait for hours 

 to get their chance of the day's inoculation." 



