The following tables, giving the results obtained since the vaccinations were first used, show that the gravity of the bites varies with their position on the body, and that the mortality is always below 1 per cent. among patients bitten by dogs undoubtedly rabid:-- +-------------------+---------+-------+----------+ | |Patients.|Deaths.|Mortality.| +-------------------+---------+-------+----------+ |Bites of the Head | 1,759 | 21 | 1.1 | |Bites of the Hands | 11,118 | 53 | 0.47 | |Bites of the Limbs | 7,289 | 22 | 0.30 | +-------------------+---------+-------+----------+ | | 20,166 | 96 | 0.46 | +-------------------+---------+-------+----------+ +---+---------+-------+----------+ | |Patients.|Deaths.|Mortality.| +---+---------+-------+----------+ | A | 2,872 | 20 | 0.69 | | B | 12,547 | 61 | 0.48 | | C | 4,747 | 15 | 0.31 | +---+---------+-------+----------+ | | 20,166 | 96 | 0.46 | +---+---------+-------+----------+ III In regard to their nationality, the 1521 patients treated at the Pasteur Institute in 1897 were as follows:-- Germany 8 England 83 Belgium 14 Egypt 2 United States 1 Greece 1 India 33 Switzerland 33 That is, 175 foreigners and 1346 French. IV Notes of the eight cases where the treatment failed:-- 1. Camille Bourg, 26. Bitten 11th April; treated at the Pasteur Institute, 13th to 30th April; died of rabies at the Lariboisière Hospital, 26th May. Six penetrating bites on the ball of the left thumb. The dog was examined by M. Grenot, a veterinary surgeon at Paris, and the dissection gave evidence of rabies. Another person bitten and treated at the same time as Bourg is now in good health. 2. Louis Fiquet, 23. Bitten 22nd April; treated at the Pasteur Institute, 23rd April to 10th May; died of rabies at the Necker Hospital, 4th June. Five bites, two of them deep, round the right thumb. They had been cauterised five hours after infliction. The dog was examined by M. Caussé, a veterinary surgeon at Boulogne, and the dissection gave evidence of rabies. Another person bitten at the same time as Fiquet is now in good health. 3. Annette Beaufort, 19. Licked on the hands, which were chapped, on 15th April. The dog was killed next day, examined, and declared to have been rabid by M. Lachmann, a veterinary surgeon at Saint-Étienne. Treated at the Pasteur Institute, 20th April to 7th May. Died of rabies 14th October. Two other persons bitten by the same dog and treated at the Pasteur Institute are now in good health.