REPORT ON TYPHOID INJECTIONS

A report made to the President of the College by Dr. H. N. Kingsford on the typhoid-para-typhoid injections given the Dartmouth undergraduates during the spring of 1917, contains some facts that may be of general interest to the alumni. Approximately 2,000 injections were given to some 700 men, totaling an injection of roughly 5,000,000,000,000 bacteria. This was accomplished without an infection resulting in any case. The reaction for the vaccine upon the men as a whole was typical; only three or four men per hundred were made sick and all of these recovered in 24 to 48 hours. The cost to the College was $39.29 or between five and six cents per man.