Eleven deaths were recorded among the 13,648 patients who received complete or incomplete courses of treatment giving a mortality rate of 0.08 per cent. The total number of patients treated at the Subsidiary Centres during the 26-year period from 1922 to 1947 was 217,280, among whom 727 deaths were reported giving a mortality rate of 0.33 per cent. All the 11 deaths reported during the year occurred among Asiatic patients and followed dog-bite. No

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report of the director of the INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN INDIA,

?ASTEUR

UJONOOR,

TOGETHER

WITH

FORTY-

THE

HRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL

COMMITTEE

OF THE

PASTEUR

INSTITUTE 1947-48. MADRAS

association for the year PRINTED AT THE DIOCESAN PRESS,

Antirabic

f

treatment.?The antirabic vaccine employed

'he treatment of human

?

patients

was

a

5 per cent

brain (Paris strain of fixed virus) prepared by Semple's method. A total of ->,054,224 cc. was manufactured during the year. ? ^e year under review 18,166.5 courses of antir lc vaccine were issued. the disturbances in the Punjab when the ^esear?h Institute, Ivasauli, could not supply ant ,c vaccine, this Institute supplied at the instance nf !, .Ie Central Government 331,020 cc. of antirabic v t.?.the Government of United Provinces and tli?eir\e 0 Dominion of Pakistan.

in^3eiu^0ri"salinosheep

"^1.

cvD?rins

(?) Patients lyeated

-Plu'ing the year (3um?'-te.course a^'cs and

a

of t-

lea^ment

at the Pasteur Institute :? under review 323 patients received antirabic treatment at the Institute

9

Europeans).

Incomplete

courses

also given to 61 patients, of whom Solved from further treatment after the Po rabies in the biting animals had been ovni i V uded. The remainder absconded. 29

were

Sl,bsequent history of treated patients was a-lned six months after the completion of treat?

a

nt m 88.8 per cent cases.

death was recorded among the 355 patients who eiv^1Ve coniPlete or incomplete courses of treatment

reP^e

lnS a mortalitv rate ?f 0.29 per cent. The death cc?rred in an Asiatic patient. Advice, but no treatment, was given to 208 persons.

np

40

"iviri

*

the 41-year period from 1907 to 1947, the treated at the Institute was subsequently died of rabies mortality rate of 0.99 per cent.

of patients 7

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