Public Health, Michigan Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...weeks, sometimes for many months, and rarely for many years. When the condition lasts for a long time, the person is called a chronic "typhoid bacilli carrier." For example, a cook in New York state after having had 'typhoid fever, was infected with typhoid bacilli for many years afterwards, although in apparently good health. To her as a source of infection, during the past ten years, twenty-six cases and one death from typhoid fever have been traced, among the families whom she served. She has been taken to a hospital for treatment of this chronic condition to see if a permanent cure cannot be effected. Another clear instance of this condition has recently been brought to light in the District of Columbia. In Georgetown, an epidemic of typhoid fever was traced to a typhoid bacilli carrier on a dairy farm. This carrier was also a woman, who had had the disease eighteen years before. Failing to find any reasonable source of infection, yet suspecting that this dairy farm was the source, the health officer had the dejecta of this woman analyzed, and it was found to be infected with typhoid bacilli. This woman, suffering in no way from the disease at the time of this outbreak, did not suspect her own condition; and only the persistent and careful investigation by the health authorities traced the origin of this outbreak to her infection.J There are many other striking in Editorial, Journal American Medical Association, June 13, 1908. tThis is a brilliant instance accepted by the medical profession throughout the country and abroad, discovered by Dr. G. A. Soper. See Journal American Medical Association for 1907, page 2019. tA Milk-Borne Outbreak of Typhoid Fever Traced to a Bacillus Carrier, by Lumsden and Woodward, Washington, D. C.--Journal Medica...