Word: typhoidal
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...Like typhoid, the germs of amebic dysentery may be spread through water contaminated by sewage. But when Chicago belatedly reported a full-fledged dysentery epidemic as A Century of Progress was closing wiseacres assumed that the second city in the land had up-to-date sanitation and therefore the germs could have been transmitted only on food infected by dirty-handed hotel employes (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association a committee of experts on sanitation and tropical diseases, including National Institute of Health Director George W. McCoy, Mayo Clinic's Dr. Thomas...
...parasites enter the canal through the mouth, in food or drink. Some of them leave in intestinal discharges. In the U. S., with its well-guarded water and sewage systems, the parasites are spread chiefly by infected food handlers who fail to wash their hands thoroughly. As with typhoid bacilli, the parasites may be carried by humans who do not suffer from the disease...
...Eland's wife, I might tell you for data on heredity that Grandson Dick Bland picks his nose at table, but has all the other qualities of lovableness and generosity attributed to Silver Dick also. For instance, in a St. Joseph, Mo. hospital lay Silver Dick ill with typhoid and considerably nettled thereof when a green young interne attempted to minister to him. For days the young medico tried to please, but as he rushed into the room in answer to yells was immediately retreated by more bellows of rage and helplessness. You can well imagine the feelings...
...question arose at Dallas what diseases the traveler in Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America need guard against. General advice was, as for travel anywhere, to take precautionary inoculations against smallpox and typhoid. Often threatening are bacillary and amebic dysentery, typhus, bubonic plague (a milder form than in the Orient), yellow fever, malignant malaria, and in the seaports venereal disease. Country people exhibit comparatively little venereal disease. On the other hand, mainly because they go barefoot and tend to wash little, they are subject to the tropical fevers and sores. Oroya fever and Andean Wart are peculiar...
Last week something happened. Every seventh person in Chamberlain became feverishly ill with typhoid. Six died. It was noised that an Indian boy who might have been a carrier of typhoid had swum in the freezing Missouri, contaminating the water. But the fact, and full explanation was, that the chlorinator which makes Missouri River potable for Chamberlain people broke down...