On prophylactic inoculation against plague and pneumonia.

  • Waldemar Haffkine
Date:
1914
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    for some two years, in investigating the pneumonia among the Eand Mine labourers in South Africa. The account of their findings throws light on certain subjects dealt with by the Plague Commission of 1898-99 ; and in view of the part which Sir A. E. Wright had taken in the framing of the Commission's conclusions, the result of the above authors' studies may be considered as supplementing the materials for a right understanding of the questions involved. Accordingly, in the notes which follow, the points of divergence between the Commission of 1898-99 and myself which have come within the scope of the enquiry in South Africa have been gathered together and reviewed in consecutive order. Some of them concern fundamental principles. I need hardly add that, in the years that have intervened, I have continued to study carefully all the subjects on which the Commission of 1898-99 or any other experts had dissented from me ; the present review is, however, limited to the items specified, on the grounds explained above. The text of this note is divided into sections according to the several subjects dealt with ; and each section is arranged, for facility of reference, under three heads, viz., as follows :— Sub-division A refers to the information and views placed by me before the Plague Commission of 1898-99 and reported in the Minutes of Evi- dence, Vols. I and III of their Report. ( Indian Plague Commis- sion, 1898-99. Government Publication, printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Ofl6.ce, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1900); Sub-division B contains the Commission's analysis and conclusion regarding the subject concerned, and is quoted from their Report; Vol. V, issued in 1901; and Sub-division C gives the results arrived at by Sir A. E. Wright and Drs. Morgan, Colebrook and Dodgson, in the course of their present enquiry, as recorded in the Report to the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association on the Results of an Inquiry into the Causation, Prophy- laxis, and Treatment of the Pneumonia which afiects the Native Labourers, and in particular the Tropical Native Labourers in the Rand Mines.—Observations on Prophylactic Inoculation against Pneu- mococcus Infections, and on the Results which have been achieved by it. By Sir Almroth E. Wright, M.D., F.R.S., in conjunction with W. Parry Morgan, M.B. Cantab., L. Colebrook, M.B. Lond., andR. W. Dodgson, M.D. Lond. The Lancet, 3rd and 10th January, 1914, pp. 1-10 and 87-95.