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IN the thirty-third annual report for 1933 of the Kasauli Pasteur Institute, the Director, Lieut.-Col. Shortt, gives an account of the work of the Institute for 1933. The total number of patients attending the Institute and its various centres was 19,524, an increase of 4,406 as compared with the previous year. Such a large number of patients indicates the widespread threat of rabies in India. The vaccine used was carbolised 5 per cent Paris sheep vaccine, and three out of every four cases with face bites received antirabic serum in addition, as this appears to improve the results obtained. Deducting some 2,000 cases that did not complete the treatment, and 1,446 cases whom it was considered did not require treatment, there were 1,356 Europeans and 14,582 natives treated. There were no deaths among the Europeans, and 83 deaths among the natives, a combined percentage death-rate of only 0-52.
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Pasteur Institute of India, Kasauli. Nature 136, 677 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136677b0
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