+-------+----------+---------+-----------+ | Year. | Patients | Deaths. | Mortality | | | treated. | | per cent. | +-------+----------+---------+-----------+ | 1886 | 2671 | 25 | 0.94 | | 1887 | 1770 | 14 | 0.79 | | 1888 | 1622 | 9 | 0.55 | | 1889 | 1830 | 7 | 0.38 | | 1890 | 1540 | 5 | 0.32 | | 1891 | 1559 | 4 | 0.25 | | 1892 | 1790 | 4 | 0.22 | | 1893 | 1648 | 6 | 0.36 | | 1894 | 1387 | 7 | 0.50 | | 1895 | 1520 | 5 | 0.33 | | 1896 | 1308 | 4 | 0.30 | | 1897 | 1521 | 6 | 0.39 | +-------+----------+---------+-----------+ II Patients treated at the Pasteur Institute are divided into three classes, as follows:-- A. The rabies of the animal was proved by experiment, by the development of rabies in animals inoculated with its bulb (the upper end of the spinal cord).[25] [25] It is satisfactory to know that rabbits affected with rabies do not suffer in the same way as dogs and some other animals, but become subject to a painless kind of paralysis. B. The rabies of the animal was proved by veterinary examination (dissection of its body). C. The animal was suspected of rabies. We give here the patients treated in 1897, under these three classes:-- +------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ | BITES OF THE | BITES ON THE | BITES OF THE | TOTAL. | | HEAD. | HANDS. | LIMBS. | | +--+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+ | | P | | M p | P | | M p | P | | M p | P | | M p | | | a | D | o e | a | D | o e | a | D | o e | a | D | o e | | | t | e | r r | t | e | r r | t | e | r r | t | e | r r | | | i | a | t | i | a | t | i | a | t | i | a | t | | | e | t | a c | e | t | a c | e | t | a c | e | t | a c | | | n | h | l e | n | h | l e | n | h | l e | n | h | l e | | | t | s | i n | t | s | i n | t | s | i n | t | s | i n | | | s | . | t t | s | . | t t | s | . | t t | s | . | t t | | | . | | y . | . | | y . | . | | y . | . | | y . | +--+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+ | A| 15 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 2.1 | 142 | 1 | 0.7 | | B| 106 | 0 | 0 | 539 | 4 | 0.74| 273 | 1 | 0.4 | 918 | 5 | 0.65| | C| 30 | 0 | 0 | 244 | 0 | 0 | 187 | 0 | 0 | 461 | 0 | 0 | +--+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+ | | 151 | 0 | 0 | 864 | 4 | 0.46| 506 | 2 | 0.4 |1521 | 6 | 0.39| +--+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+-----+---+-----+