+-------------------------------+-----------------+--------------+ | Year. | Number of | Cases among | | |Typhoid Patients.|Nursing Staff.| +-------------------------------+-----------------+--------------+ | 1895 | 229 | 3 | | 1896 | 238 | 3 | | 1897 | 302 | 4 | | 1898 | 426 | 8 | | To end of September 1899 | 163 | 5 | |From October 1899 to March 1900| 146 | 0 | +-------------------------------+-----------------+--------------+ 2. _Ladysmith, South Africa._ The _Lancet_, 14th July 1900, contains a short note by Professor Wright, on the distribution of typhoid among the officers and men of the military garrison, during the siege of Ladysmith. The figures are as follows:-- +-------------+-------+------+----------+-------+----------+----------+ | |Number.|No. of|Proportion|No. of |Proportion| Case- | | | |Cases.|of Cases. |Deaths.|of Deaths.|mortality.| +-------------+-------+------+----------+-------+----------+----------+ |Not | | | | | | | | inoculated |10,529 | 1489 |1 in 7.07 | 329 | 1 in 32 |1 in 4.52 | |Inoculated | 1,705 | 35 |1 in 48.7 | 8 | 1 in 213 |1 in 4.4 | +-------------+-------+------+----------+-------+----------+----------+ The wide difference between the two groups, as regards the incidence of the disease, is well marked; but the case-mortality is practically the same in each group. (The statistics of the General Hospital, Ladysmith, also tell in favour of the preventive treatment: see Surgeon-Major Westcott's letter, _British Medical Journal_, 20th July 1901, in answer to Dr. Melville's letter, _British Medical Journal_, 20th April 1901.) 3. _The Portland Hospital: Modder River and Bloemfontein_. The _British Medical Journal_, 10th November 1900, contains an account by Dr. Tooth of the cases of typhoid in this hospital. Concerning the preventive treatment, he says: "The experience of my colleague Dr. Calverley and myself may be of interest, though we fear that the numbers are too few for safe generalisation.