134 THE HOUSE FLY— DISEASE CARRIER 



ily, to be a chronic carrier and the probable source of 

 infection in a number of cases. Another outbreak in 

 which seventeen persons were seized (two deaths) was 

 traced to a woman who had no typhoid history but 

 was excreting the specific bacilli. She was employed 

 in the dairy from which the persons seized had obtained 

 their milk. Of 260 cases of typhoid fever investigated, 

 sixty were traced to infected milk. Among the sixty 

 victims were thirty maids and kitchen girls, twelve 

 bakers and forty-four persons engaged more or less in 

 kitchen work. In all, twenty-eight cases were traced 

 directly to apparently healthy typhoid carriers. 



"Minelli examined 250 prisoners who had not been 

 in contact with typhoid cases, and found «but one who 

 had the specific organism constantly in the feces. The 

 agglutinative test was positive. 



"Etienne and Thiry report the case of a man, sixty- 

 four years of age, who, after four years in a hospital, 

 under treatment for tabes and hemiplegia, had two at- 

 tacks of jaundice, and on examination was found to be 

 excreting typhoid bacilli in the feces. 



"A series of twenty-six cases of the disease in fifteen 

 families of a village in Lorraine is described by Seige, 

 who states that diligent investigation by the district 

 physician, the village authorities and the Bacteriological 

 Institute of Saarlouis placed the responsibility upon a 

 woman who was a chronic typhoid carrier. 



"An interesting case of infection from direct contact 

 is reported by Dr. H. MacKenzie and by Mr. W. H. 

 Battle. More than two years after a severe attack of 



