M. Pasteur's Institute.
■ « | According to the " Annales de 1' i Institute Pasteur," IG4B persons | were during the past year inoculated I for hydrophobia, 0 of wh>m died of i the complaint. Two of the six, ! however showed sign of r.ibips within a period of ten clays after the last inoculation. Three patients went mad during the course of the series of inoculations ; another who refused to allow this course of treatment to be concluded also died. These four cases are not included either in the total of patients treated, or among those who died after inoculation, as the entire course of treatment was not completed. Out of the 1,640 patients, 1,470 were French, 43 {Spanish, 35 Greek, 23 English, 22 Belgian, 18 Egyptian, 14 British subjects living in the West Indies, 9 Swiss, 9 Dutch and 6 Portuguese. Since the introduction of the system of vaccinating for hydrophobia, 14,480 persons have been treated, of whom only 72 are dead. Some 1,243 people were bitten in the head, 8,032 in the hand, and 5,185 in miscellaneous parts of the body. It would appear that bites in the head are the most dangerous, the propor tion of deaths among persons thus injured being 1-82 per cent.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 June 1894, Page 3
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204M. Pasteur's Institute. Manawatu Herald, 19 June 1894, Page 3
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