MEDICAL ASPECTS OF PLAGUE.] 85

No.
Occupation.
Number of deaths in
Total.
Sep.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
25
Shoe and Boot -makers
1
5
14
20
26
Workers and sellers of Jute
5
1
6
27
Cow-keepers and Milk-sellers
2
1
4
7
28
Grain, Pulse and Flour dealers
9
15
9
18
51
29
Sweetmeat makers and sellers of pastry, cooks
1
1
10
12
30
Fruit and vegetable dealers
1
2
10
3
31
Grocers, Spice-dealers
1
4
5
32
Stone-cutters
1
4
5
33
Gold and Silver-smiths
1
1
9
11
34
Black-smiths
1
5
6
35
General labourers and coolies
18
66
50
185
319
36
Factory labourers (unspecified)
7
14
92
113
37
Shopmen, &c. (unspecified)
9
3
19
31
38
Mendicants
2
20
22
39
Males following no occupation
2
6
4
32
44
40
Females do. do.
12
50
34
171
267
41
Children, males
16
41
49
188
294
42
Children, females
2
28
29
131
190
Totals
77
299
257
1,205
1,838
TABLE VIII.
The details of 27 Patients treated at Parel Plague Hospital with
M. Yersin's Anti-toxic Serum.
No.
Initials.
Sex.
Age.
Caste.
Occupation.
Duration of Disease.
Serum in C. C.
Total C. C.
Result.
Remarks.
1
C.D.N.
M
51
N. C.
Medical Practitioner.
Days. 4-5
30+20
50
D
Double pneumonia.
2
D. P.
F
40
H.
Cooly
2
30+20
50
D
3
D. N.
F
11/2
N. C.
2
10+10+10
30
R
*4
R.T.N.
F
18
N. C.
3
20+20
40
D
Meningitis and tumour (osseous) pressing on medulla found post-mortem.
5
S.B.
M
24
H.
Clerk
3-4
20+10+10x20
0
D
6
S.B.K.
M
18
H.
Mill-hand
3-5
20+10
0
D
7
P.D.
F
60
H.
2
30+30+40
100
D
8
R.M.
M
25
H.
Mill-hand
2
30
30
D
9
J.D.D.S.
M
13
N. C.
Schoolboy.
36 hours.
40+40
80
D
Developed double pneumonia.
10
P.R.
M
7
H.
Do.
2
30+30
60
R
*11
R.F.
F
25
N. C.
20
20
12
M.D.
M
30
H.
Hamal
2
40
40
D
13
R.M.
M
9
N. C.
Schoolboy
1
40+40+40+40+30
190
R
14
S.J.
M
9
H.
Sweeper
2
40 + 40 + 30
110
R
15
B.J.
M
25
H.
Do.
2
30 + 40+40
110
R
16
B.G.S.
M
28
H.
Clerk
36 hours.
40 + 50
90
D
17
T.M.
M
18
H.
Mill-hand
2
50 + 50 + 50+50+30
230
R
18
M.S.
M
30
H.
Mali
26 hours.
4
40
D
19
K.H.
M
22
H.
Massal
4-5
40
40
R
20
L.R.
F
12
N.C.
3-9 hours.
40
40
D
21
A.K.T.
M
60
N.C.
Merchant
9 hours.
40+50+50
140
R
22
M.E.
M
45
Parsee.
Cook
3
60
60
R
23
D.
F
11
Parsee.
27 hours.
50
50
D
*24
H.B.
F
32
Hindu Jain.
7 "
50
50
R
I heard came from Charni Road Hospital.
25
C.M.
F
32
N.C
24 "
50 + 50
100
D
26
K.B.S.
F
4
H.
42 "
40
40
D
*27
G.R.
M
52
H.
Clerk
3-5
20
20
D
Hepatitis and R. Fever. Injected at his own urgent request.
* These were not cases of plague.
Case No. 4 died of meningitis and should be excluded ; and mortality = 60.8 per cent.
2 cases developed sub-acute synovitis.
2 cases developed erythematous rashes on the skin. In one of these the rash persisted 21/2 weeks.
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