I 
I 
I 
I 
SEDGWICK AND WINSLOW. 
BACILLUS OF TITHOID FEVFIt 
o2r^ 
Percentage Monthly Di.'^tuibution of Tvr 
HOMi. 
Afrrr ^01 Va 
Place. 
Period . 
Berlin 
Neufchatel } 
Lausanne 
Breslau 
Frankfort- a-M 
Hanover 
Basel 
Paris 
Au^sbury; 
Bern 
Munich 
Praii'ue 
Vienna 
Basel * 
Leipzig 
Copenliagen * 
Bremen * 
Chemnitz * 
Christiania * 
1854-85 
1835-52 
1863-78 
1853-85 
1874-85 
1826-73 
1867-78 
1856-78 
1871-80 
1851-85 
1873-84 
1871-85 
1875-85 
1851-65 
1842-58 
1872-84 
1838-82 
1845-64 
Total No. 
J. 
16660 
933 
2521 
1496 
397 
2213 
4152 
1092 
340 
7530 
998 
4992 
3599 
1052 
3198 
1648 
1455 
6.5 
8.6 
7.7 
7.9 
7.6 
8.6 
6.2 
11.0 
9.7 
11.5 
10.5 
8.2 
10.3 
9.4 
6.1 
7.6 
6.2 
F. 
6.0 
5.2 
7.5 
7.1 
5.1 
6.4 
5.7 
6.7 
6.8 
11.9 
9.9 
7.1 
7.1 
5.7 
M 
5.4 
5.5 
7.5 
6.2 
6.4 
6.1 
4.6 
8.1 
7.3 
11.2 
10.2 
11.8 
8.0 
5.1 
3.3 I 3.2 
A. 
M. 
5.9 
2.6 
6.4 
5,6 
5.9 
4.0 
6.1 
5.8 
6.1 10.0 
5.4 
4550 11.3 
7.0 
6.4 
7.3 
6.6 
7.3 
6.1 
4.9 
5.3 
9.1 
9.0 
8.0 
10.1 
6.7 
4.3 
7.2 
4.2 
5.1 
6.1 
7.5 
9.3 
9.9 
8.0 
3.8 
J 
2.8 3.1 
4.8 
5.2 
4.3 
4.9 
5.1 
4.0 
5.G 
6.1 
7.4 
6.2 
7.4 
7.6 
4.9 
5.2 
7.3 
6.9 
9.6 
8.0 
8.2 
6.0 
5.0 
4.7 
6.9 
3.3 
J. 
8.1 
A. 
i 
.7 
11.0 
10.1 
9.6 
10.6 
9.1 
9.1 
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)' 
8.5 
8.4 
5.0 
8.4 
6.9 12.8 
7.3 
5.8 
9.8 
8.1 
10.1 
9.3 
7.9 
8.1 
7.4 
6.1 
i.riliT.o 
n .'^ in.."} 
11.8 Ji>.i 
12.1 ii?..r, 
i 
infH 8.2 
f* s 
*JA 
* 
^.9 
G.l 
6.5 
G.9 
7.5 
11. « 
13.0 
13.3 
1 0. 7 
1 3 . i 
9.7 
10.0 
G.3 
7.1 
7.3 
b.u 
12 9 
I U. 7 
12.5 
9.7 
7.9 
8.71 «o 
9.0 
9.li 
lO.C 
1 iiJt 
lo.r, 
li'.'.t 
|iiC 
5.8 6.?<t ^"c 
5.0 
7.3 
C.9 
13.2 
18.1 ! If. 1 
9 6 ].T8,10.3 
9 3 
8.8 
13.2 
8.6 
13.2 
9.6 
6.2 
C.9 
5.7 
9.4 
9.9 
9.1 
1C.8 
7 7 
4.9 
t 
I 
7.(1 
in.2 
* Morbidity. Otlier figures refer to mnrtalitj'. 
Sov 
finally plotted 
typhoid fever and ground-water level in IJcrlin. F 
fort, Bremen, and Munich, and 
fi 
conclusion was that '■' the 
hy tl 
d quite regular coniplenientnrj 
n of typhus abdoniinalis is ii] 
II 
V 
gen 
a] tl 
li 
ted rhythm of the ground-water fluctuations 
?? 
Unfortunately 
hes did not harmonize with the 
So 
Basle ^"») and Fodor at Buda-Pesth<"*') found quite different relations between t^ 
and ground-w 
Munich, failed 
level. 
L 
the 
examinations of the yearly variatIoii<», even in 
;pondence noted prior to 1S81. Most potent of 
however, in overthrowing the gi 
theory 
was 
of 
z> 
for miasmatic 
pt 
of di 
the gradual suh-fitntion 
which robbed it of any rational, 
gical b 
The only plausible explanation of the connection bet\\ 
gro 
typhoid fever, on the b 
of the germ theory 
n<\ Avater 
Li 
d 
be c 
thei 
00 
ted in 1860 that the phen 
ue to the concentration of 
imp 
r 
ansmissio 
usually large d 
ad been furnished 
observed by Buhl might 
Is at the time of low wa 
ho drank therefrom. A 
nd 
modification of Liebermeister's idea, including a recognition of the fact th 
use d 
from 
ider area when the 
t) 
d water is low and is thus liable to poll 
distant 
has been 
;ly ad 
ted in this country by D 
1 
>. 
Baker of M 
o 
As 
rly as 
1878 Dr. Baker ("^> published 
the 
