ABSTRACT
Adele Fielde had labored for ten years in China, often overworked and exhausted, exposed to disease and pestilence in an unhealthy climate. She had lived in a land of primitive sanitation where outbreaks of cholera and deadly fevers were not uncommon, the drinking-water was always suspect, and fruit and vegetables could not be eaten without special preparation. Constant vigilance in China was the key to survival, although even in America the menace of typhoid and cholera were ever present, for these scourges always threatened, and in fact they were epidemic in Philadelphia in 1891 and 1896.
