SOUTH AFRICA 



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non-inoculated." Of the, personnel of the hospital, 

 there were 59 inoculated, with 4 cases, and 25 not 

 inoculated, with 4 cases. 



12. Winburg. The Lancet, 5th April 1902, 

 contains a short note by Professor Wright, on the 

 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He says : 

 M In view of the dearth of statistics bearing on the 

 incidence of typhoid fever in South Africa in inocu- 

 lated and uninoculated persons respectively, the 

 following, for which I am indebted to Lieutenant J. 

 W. West, R.A.M.C., Winburg, Orange River 

 Colony, may not be entirely without interest. The 

 statistics here in question give the results obtained 

 in the case of the 5th Battalion, Manchester Regi- 

 ment, for the six months which have elapsed since 

 their landing in South Africa. The figures, which 

 relate to a total strength of 747 men and officers 

 under observation, are as follows : — 





Number. 



Cases. 



Deaths. 



Percentage 

 of Cases. 



Percentage 

 of Deaths. 



Uninoculated 

 Inoculated 



547 

 200 



23 



3 



7 

 0 



4.2 



i-5 



1 in 3.3 

 0 



" The three attacks in the inoculated are reported 

 to have been of exceptionally mild type, contrasting 

 in a striking manner with the severe attacks which 

 occurred in the uninoculated. At the time of send- 

 ing in the report, some of the uninoculated patients 

 were 'not yet out of danger.' " 



