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DETAILS are given in the annual report, for 1936, of the director, Dr. R. O. A. Smith, recently issued, of anti-rabic treatment carried out at the Pasteur Institute of India, Kasauli, and its attached centres. the total number of patients attending was 24,897, of whom 18,620, made up of 17,263 Asiatics and 1,357 Europeans, received the full course of inoculations with vaccine. Of these, 97 Asiatics died, a death-rate of 0·56 per cent, but no Europeans. The vaccine employed was a carbolized 5 per cent emulsion of brain of sheep inoculated with Paris fixed virus, a number of cases suffering from severe, bites of rabid animals receiving anti-rabic serum treatment in addition.
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Anti-Rabic Treatment in India. Nature 144, 148 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144148d0
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