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inoculated, leaving 25,851 not inoculated ; among the 

 inoculated there were 44 cases and 9 deaths, among 

 the non-inoculated 657 cases and 146 deaths. 

 Taking the Indian statistics, and estimating per- 

 centage to strength, we find, amongst the inoculated, 

 admissions 0.98, deaths 0.2 ; amongst the non- 

 inoculated, admissions 2.5, deaths 0.56. The cases 

 which occurred amongst the inoculated men were 

 in the majority of instances of a mild character. 

 Taking Malta, Egypt, and India together, it 

 appears that the inoculated, if they had suffered 

 equally with the non-inoculated, would have had 

 108 cases and 24 deaths, instead of 44 cases and 9 

 deaths. 



At the end of 1899, this treatment, only just out 

 of the hands of science, was suddenly demanded for 

 the protection of a huge army at war in a country 

 saturated with typhoid. Still, the South African 

 results, and other results during 1899 to 1901, show 

 a good balance of lives saved. The following 

 paragraphs give all results published up to the 

 present time, from the beginning of 1900 to May 

 1902. They are put in order of publication. 

 Doubtless a few other reports have been over- 

 looked in compilation ; but the list includes all 

 that were easily accessible. 



1. Manchester, England. The British Medical 

 Journal, 28th April 1900, contains a note by Dr 

 Marsden, Medical Superintendent of the Monsall 

 Fever Hospital, Manchester, on the inoculation of 

 14 out of 22 nurses engaged in nursing typhoid 

 patients. Of the remaining 8, 4 had already had 



