A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature / by W.L. Sutton.

  • Sutton, William Loftus, 1797-1862.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature / by W.L. Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from observations made with some care, though not able to say precisely, I am fully satisfied of the proximity to truth in the statement above made. Our population is stationary to a great degree. The principal ingress is from students to our schools, male and female, and jour- neymen mechanics We have about two hundred students from a distance. Among these, I have not known of more than eight or ten cases of fever in the six years; and I do not know that any one of them had been here less than a year. Neither do I know, with the exception of four, that any case was one of typhoid fever,* I presume, however, that some of them were. This table shows a large proportion of cases between fifteen and thirty years—a much larger proportion of cases over forty years than seems to be com- monly found—a large majority of males—a large majori- ty of whites—and we may say nothing respecting those of recent residence amongst us. The field is too narrow to found any general conclusions upon. We can only say such has been the result of facts observed by a single in- dividual in a certain location, during a particular year. TABLE OF CASES REFERRED TO. NAMES. AGE. J. Stevens 10 M. Stevens 8 *M. Daviess 19 Mrs. McDaniel 45 Taylor 15 Reuben 14 Elijah 16 Harriet 17 SEX. Male, Female, Male, Female, COLOR. White, FATE. Recovered. Black, * Since this was written, I have seen a number of strangers with the fever, still however, not a sufficient number to think that they are at all more liable than permanent residents.