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charge of a native medical man who had a small hospital within a 
hundred yards of the place. Six weeks after (4th April 1898), 
an investigation was made by the late Surgeon-General R. Harvey, 
M.D., C.B., Director-General of the Indian Medical Service, Mr 
Haffkine, Captain Dyson, I.M.S., and myself, assisted by the local 
authorities of Baroda. Each house in which a plague case had 
occurred since the 12th of February was visited, and the occur- 
rences among the members ascertained by personal enquiry from 
the survivors, by reference to the hospital register, and from the 
census papers, in which had been entered the doses of prophylactic 
administered. I myself carried the census lists, and from it called 
out the inhabitants of the plague-infected houses by name, and I 
shall never forget the experiences of that day. One incident I 
particularly remember — the finding in two huts in succession 
that all the uninoculated had died and that only the inoculated 
members of the households came out to answer to their names. 
The attitude of the people was also very striking, for when asked 
about the results of the experiment, they said that “about fifty 
uninoculated had been attacked and they are all dead, while only 
a few inoculated have been ill, and they have all recovered.” 
This turned out to be an example of oriental imagination, as the 
following will prove, hut it serves to show the impression the 
operations had left on the minds of the villagers. That the 
neighbours were also favourably impressed was shown by the 
arrival of a deputation, requesting us to come next day to inoculate 
them, which we accordingly did, operating on 700 in three hours. 
The following table is the result of this investigation. Plague 
continued in the village for forty-two days after the inoculations 
were performed, and affected twenty-eight families. 
Among the Inoculated. 
(a) There were no deaths from 
causes other than plague. 
( b ) There were no deaths during 
the first three days after inoculation, 
the first fatality being recorded on 
the 21st, eight clear days after. 
(c) From the 15th February till 
the end of the epidemic there were 
eight attacks of plague, of which 
three had a fatal termination. 
Among the Uninoculated. 
(a) A child aged one year died 
of bronchitis on 21st February 1898. 
(b) Three died of plague during 
the first three days following the 
inoculation, and are therefore omitted 
from the calculations as having been 
attacked before the inoculations were 
carried out. 
(c) From the 15th of February till 
the end of the epidemic, twenty-seven 
more attacks of plague occurred, of 
which twenty-six died. 
