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
Abstracts from Reports a*nual
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