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stant supervision. All but 3 of them submitted to inoculation on December
23rd, 1897, and the following shows the incidence of plague in the two groups :-
Population.
Cases.
Deaths from Plague.
Inoculated
80
...
Not inoculated
3
2
2
In January 1899, when a third epidemic of plague visited Belgaurn, this
group of persons, who then numbered 84, were inoculated again, 7 excepted, with
the following result :-
Population.
Cases.
Deaths from Plague.
Inoculated in 1899...
77
2
2
Inoculated in 1897 but not
again in 1899
2
...
Not inoculated
5
1
1
As these people were living isolated from others, and under daily medical
supervision, errors of diagnosis are practically excluded, and the results record-
ed may be taken as accurate.
The second instance noted by Major Forman is from his own compound,
being from the body of his private servants and their families. They were all in-
oculated, with the exception of Govind's child and Rajah, on 23rd and 24th
December 1897, and the following are the details of events up to- August
1899 :-
Names.
Whether attacked
by Plague.
REMARKS.
Anthony, butler
No.
Left Belgaum some months after; now in Burmah.
Juan do.
No.
Still withtMajor Forman in Belgaum. Have been,
inoculacd twice since.
Do. wife
No.
Do. daughter
No.
Do. do.
No.
Sundaram, chokra
No.
Do. do.
Bullock-coach driver
No.
Do. do.
Tom, cook
No.
All alive in Belgaum. Now cook with 21st Pioneers.
Do. wife
No.
Do. father ...
No.
Do. 5 children
No.
Joseph, cook's matey
No.
Still alive in Belgaum.
Dusrut, syce ...
No.
Went to his village about 4 months afterwards.
Present state unknown.
Do. 2 wives
No.
Govind, syce ...
No.
Both in Belgaum now and well.
Do. wife ...
No.
Do. child...
Yes.
Parents refused to have child inoculated.
It died of plague in end of January 1898. Was treated
in hospital by Major Zimmermann, R.A.M.C.
...

Tulsi, sweeper
No.
All in Belgaum now and well. Her husband, a
cantonment sweeper, who was not supposed to live
in the compound, but probably came at nights, was
not inoculated, and died of plague 3 months after.
Do. 2 children
No.
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