Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prevalence of typhoid and material fevers among the students at Yale College is puzzling the Faculty, the members of which, one and all, aver that the sewerage and drainage of the college buildings are perfect, and that they cannot account for the unusual illness that has prevailed amony the students thus far this term. The reports of deaths have, however, been exaggerated. But two student have died of typhoid fever. and one of these contracted the disease abroad during vacation. There are now and have been a number of students more or less ill from malarial fever, but there...
...experiences quite as varied, and even more unfortunate. The recent death of a prominent member of '84 has cast a feeling of sadness over the greater part of the college, which will not be entirely dispelled for many weeks. There have been various rumors of the prevalence of typhoid fever, but as yet they appear to be without foundation, this being the only death attributable to such a cause. But there has also been a pleasant side to the last few days as well as a sad one, and there are numerous plans already on foot for future entertainments...
...days past some little comment has been passed by various papers on the sanitary condition of the buildings at Yale, owing to the recent deaths of persons connected with the college from typhoid fever. These seem to be reviving the general feeling of uneasiness which existed at the time of the Princeton scare. It does not seem possinle that any remediable cause of disease could be allowed to lurk in any of their college buildings...
Several cases of typhoid fever, resulting from bad drainage, have occurred at Amherst. George and Snook run their one mile match today, on the Lillie bridge grounds, London, England...
...Scarlet fever prevails at Oxford, and complaint is made because there is no college hospital...