nicate all the observations which have been made in different localities in India on the effect of the anti-choleraic inoculations since my Note on the subject to the Municipality in May of this year. The localities comprise Cawnpore, Gya, Dinapore, Lucknow and Calcutta. At Cawnpore last year a small number of persons were inoculated, of which 80 were in the Munster Regiment. During the severe epidemic of this year cholera attacked the reo-iment, its strength being at the time 797 not inoculated and 75 inoculated, 19 cases with 13 deaths, occurred among the not inoculated men, none of the inoculated being affected. In the Gya district also cholera was prevalent in a severe form and affected the Gya jail on the 9th of July of this year, causing by the 18th 6 cases and 5 deaths. On the 18th and the following day, 215 prisoners were inoculated; during the period of the outbreak the average number of the inoculated present were 207 against 202 not inoculated. Surgeon-Major Macrae, the Superintendent of the Jail, who has states in his given the details of this epidemic, account that the inoculations " being & purely voluntary, no selection of prisoners was possible, but all classes of the jail were represented, male' and female, old and young, habituals and less CALCUTTA FROM MUNICIPAL BULLETIN LABORATORY. frequent offenders, strong and weakly, convalescent and even hospital patients sent their repreAnti-choleraic inoculatians in Calcutta from 2ot?i Sentembei sentatives ; no difference of any kind was made to 24th October 1894. between inoculated and non-inoculated; they OTHER CASTES. MAHOMBDANS. HINDOOS. were under absolutely identical conditions' as regards food, water, accommodation, &c., in short g a

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