Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cambridge, England is discussing very seriously the sanitary condition of their city. She fears an outbreak of typhoid fever similar to that...
...colleges and schools in Quebec have been closed on account of a serious epidemic of typhoid fever there...
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...
...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...
...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...