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8. Egypt and Cyprus. The British Medical 

 Journal, May 4th 1901, gives a short note by 

 Professor Wright on inoculations during 1901 in 

 Egypt and Cyprus. He says : " I am indebted to 

 the kindness of Colonel W. J. Fawcett, R.A.M.C., 

 Principal Medical Officer in Egypt, for the follow- 

 ing statistics dealing with the incidence of enteric 

 fever, and the mortality from the disease, for the year 

 1900, in the inoculated and uninoculated among the 

 British troops in Egypt and Cyprus : — 





Average Annual 

 Strength. 



Cases. 



Deaths. 



Percentage 

 of Cases. 



Percentage 

 of Deaths. 



Uninoculated 

 Inoculated 



2669 

 720 



68 

 1 



IO 

 I 



2.50 

 0.I4 



O.40 

 O.14 



These figures testify to a nineteen-fold reduction 

 in the number of attacks of enteric fever, and to a 

 threefold reduction in the number of deaths from 

 that disease, among the inoculated. . . . The only 

 case which occurred among the inoculated was that 

 of a patient admitted to hospital on the thirty-third 

 day after inoculation. It would seem that the 

 disease was in this case contracted before anything 

 in the nature of protection had been established by 

 the inoculation." 



9. Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Pretoria. Dr 

 Rolleston, Consulting Physician to this hospital, 

 writes in the British Medical Journal, 5th October 

 1 90 1, " Among the personnel of the hospital (17 

 medical officers, 50 nursing sisters, and 83 orderlies, 

 etc.), total, 150, there were 22 cases of enteric fever, 



