_Years._ _Persons Treated._ _Deaths._ _Mortality 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 The following table gives the number of individuals treated who had been bitten by animals which had been proved rabid by successful inoculation of other animals, and of those bitten by reputedly rabid animals, and their respective mortality. _Died._ _Mort. per ct._ Bitten by animals proved rabid by inoculation 2,872 20 0.69 Bitten by animals pronounced rabid by veterinarian 12,547 61 0.48 Bitten by animals suspected of rabies 4,747 15 0.31 ———— Average mortality 0.46 The Pasteur treatment by its great success in persons who have already been bitten has in a great measure robbed hydrophobia of its terrors, only it must be resorted to as early as possible in the period of incubation. It has also been advocated as a means of immunizing subjects that have not been bitten but are more or less liable to be so, and on this basis a large number of dogs have been passed through it. This is not likely to be adopted in the case of the human being, the more so that a few, although on the whole a very limited number of persons, have developed rabies long after the taking of the Pasteur treatment. This has been attributed to the retention of latent germs in the system, and argues besides a remaining susceptibility to the poison.