+---------------+---------+-----------+------+-------+ | | | | | | | |Strength.|Inoculated.|Cases.|Deaths.| +---------------+---------+-----------+------+-------+ |Officers | 22 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |N.C.O. and Men | 481 | 317 | 2 | 1 | |Women | 36 | 24 | 0 | 0 | +---------------+---------+-----------+------+-------+ +---------------+-----------+------+-------+ | |Not | | | | |Inoculated.|Cases.|Deaths.| +---------------+-----------+------+-------+ |Officers | 3 | 0 | 0 | |N.C.O. and Men | 164 | 11 | 6 | |Women | 12 | 0 | 0 | +---------------+-----------+------+-------+ It would thus appear that the incidence of enteric in the inoculated was represented by 0.55 per cent., and the mortality by 0.27 per cent.; while the incidence in the uninoculated was 6.14 per cent., and the death-rate 3.35 per cent." If the inoculated had suffered equally with the uninoculated, they would have had 22 cases with 11 deaths, instead of 2 cases with 1 death. 7. _The Edinburgh Hospital, South Africa._ The _Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal_, March 1901, contains an account of the work of the Edinburgh Hospital, by Dr. Francis Boyd. Of the staff, 58 were inoculated (27 once, and 31 twice). Among these 58, there were 9 cases of typhoid fever, with I death, in a patient who had old mitral disease. "Our experience has been that, while inoculation appears to modify the disease, completely modified attacks are met with in the uninoculated. Again, very severe attacks, with complications and relapse, occur in those who have been inoculated. One cannot from this conclude that inoculation has been valueless, for had not the patient been inoculated, the attack might have been still more severe." 8. _Egypt and Cyprus._ The _British Medical Journal_, 4th May 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 following 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|Cases.|Deaths.|Percentage|Percentage | | | Strength. | | | of Cases.| of Deaths.| |-------------+--------------+------+-------+----------+-----------| |Uninoculated | 2669 | 68 | 10 | 2.50 | 0.40 | |Inoculated | 720 | 1 | 1 | 0.14 | 0.14 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+