William Willcox

Clinical Aspects of Typhoid.

The recent outbreaks of typhoid fever, notably in the Bournemouth district in 1936 and in the Croydon area in 1937, have aroused renewed interest in this disease, which in recent years had become comparatively uncommon. The typhoid bacillus still breeds true, and while the outbreaks may differ somewhat in the clinical syndrome of symptoms the specific organism maintains its virulence and the percentage mortality in the recent outbreaks remains high, being about 10 -per cent. The public, who during recent years have grown accustomed to a freedom from outbreaks of a disease which thirty years ago was extremely common, have not unnaturally displayed surprise and alarm. The statistical figures of the Registrar-General show a remarkable fall in the death rate (see Table I). In 1893