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history of several patients who were treated as suffering from
influenza, or infantile diarrhoea, proving unmistakably that they
were suffering from typhoid fever. In this connection the following
details are interesting: —
1. Lizzie H., age two years, of 13, F. Street, sickened about
the middle of August, and was treated as suffering from infantile
diarrhoea, a disease common amongst infants and children as
a rule during the month of August, but especially prevalent during
August of the present year, owing to the excessive hot weather of
July. The clothes from this unknown (?) infected house were
washed and afterwards sent to be mangled at 14, S. l'lace, where
a large mangle was kept, and much appreciated by the neighbours,
who sent their washing there to be mangled. The clothes
from 13, F. Street, if infected, would infect the clo'hes from
different houses at 14, Springfield Place, where an unrecognised
case (No. 2) was also spreading infection as well.
2. William B., age 21, of 14, S. Place, sickened at the end
of August, but the disease was not properly diagnosed (the Medical
Attendant regarding it as a case of Influenza) until September
15th, when the patient was removed to hospital. For about
three weeks this patient] was suffering from typhoid at a house
where clothes were taken in to be mangled or wrung, and where
the neighbours were practically in and out all day. Twelve cases
were directly traced to this infected house (14, S. Place). It is
probable that William B. was infected from Lizzie H., of 13, F.
Street (vide No. 1 above).
3. Florence G., age 28 years, of 28, C. Street, sickened on September
24th, the Medical Man in attendance treating the case as
one of Influenza. For a period of two weeks this house was infected
without it being known, and during the whole of this time
washing was being brought from different neighbours' houses to
be mangled or wrung, a mangle being kept on the premises for the
purpose. To this source six, cases were traced.
4. William K., age seven years, of 53, F. Street, sickened with
typhoid about August 29th, but was not removed to Hospital
until September 20th. the Medical Attendant being of opinion
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