The last issue of the Annales de U'Institut Pastewr contains a full report of the work done at the Institute during the year 1897, in the course of which, as will be seen from the table given below, 1,521 persons were under treatment as a preventive against rabies, of whom eight died, though of this number tio did so before the treatment was completed, and are not, therefore, included. The figures for the twelve years during which the process has been in active operation are as under faoeulations, Deaths, per cent.
Camber of Rate of mortality 25 soso "OS per cent. 14 L. -79 per cent.
'55 per cent.
"38 per cent.
32 per cent.
25 per cent.
-22 per cent, As has often been explained before in the Field, the patients who come to be inoculated are divided into three classes, the first being for those who have been bitten by dogs experimentally proved to be mad, and of the 1,521 patients treated last year 142 belonged to that category and one died. In the second category, comprising those bitten by animals testified by veterinary examination to be mad, there were 918 patients and five deaths, while of the 461 persons trented for bites inflicted by animals suspected of being mad none died. The 1,521 persons under treatment last year were made up of 1,346 French, and.175 foreigners, the latter comprising 116 British subjects, thirty-three Swiss, fourteen Belgians, eight Germans, two Egypt-inns, a Greek, and an American, the Italians and Russians being absent' from the list, as they have institutes of their own. A table is also published showing the total number of persons treated in the last twelve years, and of the 20,106—1,750 had been bitter in the head, and twenty-one had died; 11,118 had been bitten the hand aad armand fifty-three had died and 7,289 had been bitten on other parts of the body, and twenty-two had died, so that the total mortality was ninety-six or not quite per cent.—C. B. P.
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