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  • Typhoid: Condition

    An acute infectious fever spread by food that has come in contact with faecal matter. Characterised by high temperature, red spots on chest, severe pain in bowels, and sometimes death. Known at the time as enteric fever, and was often improperly treated with purgatives, causing many deaths. It was not differentiated from typhus fever until the late 1860s.

    Referred to as: Typhoid
       DEP/DUA/1/27/05       DEP/DUA/1/32/03   
    • Typhoid: Condition

      An acute infectious fever spread by food that has come in contact with faecal matter. Characterised by high temperature, red spots on chest, severe pain in bowels, and sometimes death. Known at the time as enteric fever, and was often improperly treated with purgatives, causing many deaths. It was not differentiated from typhus fever until the late 1860s.

      Referred to as: Typhoid
         DEP/DUA/1/27/05       DEP/DUA/1/32/03