ABSTRACT
The history of Typhus Fever is the history of human misery. Its universal association in origin with destitution and dirt is undoubted. Famines occurred at intervals, and there being no adequate poor-relief, the immediate effect was widespread migration of population and vagrancy, the vagrants carrying typhus fever with them in their wanderings. The history of Enteric or Typhoid Fever is one of improvement almost as dramatic as that shown in western experience of Typhus. John Snow pointed out the confusion of thought implied in confusing offensive smells from drainage with such smells from offensive trade processes. Budd's investigations are embodied in his work on Typhoid Fever, 1873. People now know that sewage may infect not only water, but milk and such foods as oysters; and that an infected milkman may directly infect milk.
