Abstract
DETAILS of the preventive treatment of rabies at the Pasteur Institute of India, Kasauli, are given in the thirty-fifth annual report for the year 1935 by the director, Dr. R. O. A. Smith. The total number of patients attending the Institute and its centres was 21,898, an increase of 657 patients as compared with the previous year, of whom 16,627 received the complete course of treatment. There were 86 deaths among these, a percentage death-rate of 0·52, which compares with 0·49 for the previous year. In addition, 1260 courses of vaccine for the prophylactic treatment of animals were issued during the year. The vaccine employed is a carbolized 5 per cent emulsion of sheep's brain prepared from sheep infected with the Paris fixed virus.
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