Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advertiser says the Newport Daily News must be bidding for subscriptions at Yale, as it announces that six deaths from yellow fever occurred at Harvard last week...
...thought of the college authorities. Three adn a half years ago, although there had been up to that time no evil results, they removed from the dormitory buildings, at considerable expense, a system of drainage that was most offensive, and that would probably before this time have brought a fever epidemic. The college now is absolutely healthful, and, barring Fresh Pond water, so is Cambridge. For this we can not be too thankful. It has taken our university centuries to grow to what it is, and it looks forward to a greater and even greater prosperity ; yet the slightest taint...
Health Officer Lindsley says that there were nine fatal cases of typhoid fever in New Haven during the month of November, and that this implies from 40 to 60 cases of sickness. Dr. Lindsley is among those who believe the typhoid fever at Yale may be due to the proximity of the two pumps on the campus to the drain pipes. He thinks the use of the pumps should be discontinued. It is worthy of note that of twelve men rooming on the entry of Durfee, in front of which is one of the pumps, four have had symptoms...
...been created recently, there was no occasion for apprehension. Not a single case of malaria had occurred on the college premises. Every one of the serious cases of illness could be traced to personal imprudence and exposure. As for New Haven itself, there was far less of malarial fever than there was ten years ago. Athletics was another important subject of which he desired to speak. Athletics were a blessing to the college, drawing away energies which might otherwise be wasted in idleness or vice, but whether intercollegiate contests were desirable was a question of opinion. If abandoned, Yale could...
...prevalence of typhoid fever at Yale is said to be caused by the students when heated by exercise, drinking the college water which is tainted by defective drainage. President Porter, however, denies this and says that every case of fever has been brought to the college and that the system of drainage is perfect...