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ing in individuals — and also that there was a 

 tendency in the cases of enteric in inoculated 

 patients to abort at the end of ten or fourteen days. 



1 should say, however, that a very considerable 

 number of our detachment who had been inocu- 

 lated suffered from enteric, of whom 4 at least 

 died. Of the medical staff, the only member of 

 the junior staff who had not been inoculated died 

 of enteric." 



5. Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Kroon- 

 stadt. The British Medical Journal, 12th January 

 1 90 1, contains an account of the work of this 

 hospital by Surgeon-Colonel Cayley, Officer in 

 Charge. He says : " The first section of the 

 hospital, consisting of 61 persons — officers, nursing 

 sisters, and establishment — left Southampton on 

 2 1 st April 1900. During the voyage out, all 

 except 4 were inoculated twice, at an interval of 

 about ten days ; 2 were inoculated once ; and 



2 (who had had typhoid) were not inoculated. 

 Immediately we reached the Cape, the hospital was 

 sent up to Kroonstadt in the Orange River Colony, 

 and remained there as a stationary hospital till 

 the middle of October. During this period there 

 were always many cases of enteric under treat- 

 ment in hospital. Further, some of the medical 

 officers and student-orderlies had charge of the 

 Kroonstadt Hotel temporary hospital, which was 

 crowded up with enteric cases ; and the nursing 

 sisters, for three weeks, did duty in the military 

 hospitals at Bloemfontein in May and June, when 

 enteric fever was at its worst. There was not a 



