Preventing Typhoid Fever

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 14, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 36.

Preventing Typhoid Fever

SIR FREDERICK TREVES, a famous English surgeon, in a recent address delivered before the Royal Society of Arts, declared that the results achieved by inoculation against typhoid fever in the British expeditionary force have been “positively astounding.” Up to the occasion of his address, there had occurred in the British army, since the beginning of the war, only 212 cases of typhoid fever; and of these, 173 occurred in persons who had not received protective inoculation. Only 22 deaths from typhoid fever have occurred in the army during the war, and not one of those who died had been vaccinated. In other words, not a single death from typhoid fever has occurred in the British army among persons who have received prophylactic—preventive—typhoid vaccination.