SOUTH AFRICA 245 



From 22nd October 1899 to 22nd October 1900. 





Strength. 



Inoculated. 



Cases. 



Deaths. 



Not 

 Inoculated. 



Cases. 



Deaths. 



Officers . 



22 



19 



O 



O 



3 



O 



O 



N.C.O. and Men . 



481 



317 



2 



I 



164 



II 



6 



Women . 



36 



24 



O 



O 



12 



O 



0 



It would thus appear that the incidence of 

 enteric in the inoculated was represented by 0.55 

 per cent., and the mortality by 0.27 per cent. ; 

 while the incidence in the uninoculated was 6.14 

 per cent., and the death-rate 3.35 per cent." 



If the inoculated had suffered equally with the 

 uninoculated, they would have had 22 cases with 11 

 deaths, instead of 2 cases with 1 death. 



7. The Edinburgh Hospital, South Africa. The 

 Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal^ March 1901, 

 contains an account of the work of the Edinburgh 

 Hospital, by Dr Francis Boyd. Of the staff, 58 

 were inoculated (27 once, and 31 twice). Among 

 these 58, there were 9 cases of typhoid fever, with 

 1 death, in a patient who had old mitral disease. 

 " Our experience has been that, while inoculation 

 appears to modify the disease, completely modified 

 attacks are met with in the uninoculated. Again, 

 very severe attacks, with complications and relapse, 

 occur in those who have been inoculated. One 

 cannot from this conclude that inoculation has been 

 valueless, for had not the patient been inoculated, 

 the attack might have been still more severe." 



