+--------------+---------+-------+-------+----------+----------+ | |Average |Cases. |Deaths.|Percentage|Percentage| | |Strength.| | |of Cases. |of Deaths.| +--------------+---------+-------+-------+----------+----------+ |Uninoculated | 298 |30(-1?)| 4 | 10.1 | 1.3 | |Inoculated | 339 | 5(+1?)| 1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | +--------------+---------+-------+-------+----------+----------+ "It may be noted," he says, "that the result is in conformity with that of all the statistical returns of anti-typhoid inoculation which have reached me." 11. _Deelfontein._ The _Lancet_, 18th January 1902, contains a paper by Dr. Washbourn and Dr. Andrew Elliot, on 262 cases of typhoid fever in the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein during the year March 1900 to March 1901. (See Dr. Washbourn's earlier letter, _Brit. Med. Jour._, 16th June 1900.) They say: "In 211 of our cases, it was definitely recorded whether the patient had been inoculated or not: 186 of these cases had not been inoculated, with 20 deaths, or a mortality of 10.7 per cent.; 25 had been inoculated, with 4 deaths, or a mortality of 16 per cent. The mortality was thus higher among the inoculated than among the 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: "In view of the dearth of statistics bearing on the incidence of typhoid fever in South Africa in inoculated 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 Regiment, 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|Percentage| | | | | |of Cases. |of Deaths.| +--------------+---------+-------+-------+----------+----------+ |Uninoculated | 547 | 23 | 7 | 4.2 | 1 in 3.3 | |Inoculated | 200 | 3 | 0 | 1.5 | 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 sending in the report, some of the uninoculated patients were 'not yet out of danger.'" * * * * *