An address on the general pathology and serum treatment of plague : delivered at a meeting of the medical profession of Bombay, held under the auspices of the Bombay Medical Union, on March 18th, 1908 : Sir Bhalchandra Krishna, Kt., the president of the Union in the chair / by Khan Bahadur N.H. Choksy, M.D.

  • Choksy, Khan Bahadur N. H.
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1908
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Credit: An address on the general pathology and serum treatment of plague : delivered at a meeting of the medical profession of Bombay, held under the auspices of the Bombay Medical Union, on March 18th, 1908 : Sir Bhalchandra Krishna, Kt., the president of the Union in the chair / by Khan Bahadur N.H. Choksy, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were inoculated between 1898-1900 ;-16,850 in 1898-99 and 158,897 during 1899-1900 and the influence of this was, I con¬ tend, perceptible in the mortality rate for the latter year as indicated by the following statement:— Years. Attacks. Deaths. Case mortality rate per cent. 18S6 2,544 1,936 76T0 1897 13,314 11,003 82'64 1898 22,130 18,185 8212 1899 19,451 15,796 81 20 1900 ]7,913 13,285 77*90 1901 21,006 18,736 89T9 1902 16,423 13,820 84T5 1908 23,349 20,788 89-00 1904 15,488 13,538 87’40 1905 16,308 14,198 87’06 1906 12,323 10,830 87’88 1907 7,353 6,389 86*88 Total 187,602 158,504 84*48 We observe that the average mortality rate for the city was 82 % before inoculation was undertaken on the above scale. We also note that from 1901 onwards the mortality rate has averaged 88 %} and it was only during 1900, when the largest number of inocula- tions were performed, that the case mortality rate dropped to 77.90 per cent. The cause and effect are sufficiently striking, and the conclusion patent that the benefit was due to inoculation. As regards the incidence of mortality among the inoculated who have come under treatment at the Bombay hospitals, I have been able to collect about 250 cases, with the low mortality rate of 46 per cent.