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patients, however, shortly after discharge from the Hospital
removed to Cardiff, whilst another of the patients
after the third examination also left the district for a
neighbouring Borough; one patient refused to provide
further samples after the first two examinations. Of
the total number of examinations of these patients only
one was found to give at any time positive results, and
this was a patient who had been somewhat abruptly
discharged from the Fever Hospital for the purpose of
having an operation performed at Guy's Hospital, and
after her convalescence from that operation she was discharged
from that hospital. Just previous to her discharge,
however, it was thought advisable, just as a matter of
curiosity, to examine her dejecta, when to the surprise
of the authorities it was found that there were large
numbers of typhoid organisms present; the patient, however,
had been in the interval discharged, and this information
was forwarded to me by post. The address given
by the patient was, however, found to be incorrect, and
some little time elapsed before we were able to satisfactorily
trace her. She was then, however, kept under
observation for four months, for the first three of which
positive results were obtained, the fourth examination,
however, proved negative, and after this she removed
from this district to a neighbouring Borough.