New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-22
CHOLERA TO BE CONQUERED.

The good which men do is often but not al
WAYS inferred with their bones" as is shown
bv noteworthy current example. Pasteur is
dead after Il career of such beneticence as few
men of this or any age have known. But almost
simultaneously with his death there come vari-
ous convincing assurances of the vitality of his
work Listers great principle of antscptic sur
gerry is Of course, permanently established How
much Is being done 10 combat diphtheria and
Group with antitoxin is shown by the recent
reports Of Dr. Behring and Of our own Health
Board. and the vast increase of knowledge Of
tuberculosis and of power 10 deal with it is in
dictated in the report Of the Royal British Com
mission on that disease; all of which documents
we have recently reviewed. DR.. Frasers anti
vcnine is proving efiicacious against snake
bites. and progress is being made along CORE
spending lines in other directions. But in some
respects most impressive of all is the work done
by DR. Hafkine in India against the most
dreaded Of all pests. Asatic cholera.
About Il year and half ago. it will be remem-
bcred. Dr. Haffkine put into experimental prac-
ticc at Katal Bagan Bustec n system Of anti
cholerac noculations 10 the perfection of which
he had devoted several years of study ana labor
The treatment consisted Of the infection into the
circulation of cultivated and much attenuatcd
virus and of second injection. five days later
of 4 similar but stronger virus. The former was
intended To prepare the system for the latter. the
latter being so strong that without such prcpa-
ration it would probably produce the very dis
ease It was desired 10 prevent. This treatment
was purely preventive. ard not at al remedial
and 1t did not become fully effective until eight
days after the first three days after the see
ond incubation. Finally it WAS supposed to
afford immunity against the disease for about a
year. When Or. Hanline reached katal Bagan
Bustec cholera had made lis appearance ana
TWO persons had already died of it, There were
200 persons living together all equally IN peril
He inoculatcd llO Of them. Tn" disease con
tinurd it's rlvagcs. There were ten more cases
and seven deaths But every one of theS" was
among the ~ who had not been treated
Among the llG inoculated persons not single
ease of cholera occurred, though they were Just
~ much exposed 10 the contag,on rs the others
This set the health officers Of Calcutta 10 think
ins there might he something in Dr. ilaffkinrs
treatment. SO they invited him IN try II i'll mat
city and appropriated 800 rupees not To pay
him but 10 cover the expenses Of such p;fi oil the
work as should fall upon themselves. During me
year which followed 4.33I persons were inocll-
lated. An official report on the work mas Just
been made by the municipal authorities. Hcre
are some sample items Of 1t: In 30 different
and widely separated houses J2l persons were
living or these 1sl were inocullted. cholera
broke out In all. Among the Isl inoculatcd
persons there were 4 eases. all fatal Among
the $40 uninoculaicd there were 10 cases and
- deaths And the inoculated persons who
died were stricken within five days after the
first inocua ton, so that the second incubation
could not be anplied. OF those who received