DISEASES CAUSED BY INFECTED MILK 115 



and almost always a person has typhoid fever for a week ' 

 or ten days before he takes to his bed, and during this time 

 the disease is communicable. Even when the patient on 

 the dairy farm has nothing to do with the milk, there is 



DIAGRAM SHOWING RELATION OF MILK ROUTES TO 

 TYPHOID FEVER CASES DURING THE EPIDEMIC AT 

 STAMFORD, CONN., 1895 



considerable danger of the infection being carried to the 

 milk if the greatest precaution is not taken with the dis- 

 posal of the faeces and urine. The danger from bacillus 

 carriers will be considered separately. 



