SEDGWICK AND WINSLOW. 
BACILLUS OF TVniOID FETFn. 
M^ 
A little later, Sander^^^^) gave a table showing the qiiarleil> distribntion of t\|.h..;.l 
fever in Berlin, Munich, Halle, Hamburg, Schleswig-lIolsLein, Dresden, Lfi|, >. nn.l 
Chemnitz, and stated that the winter in Munich and the autumn in most otlici i.latcn 
is the period of special incidence, while May and June arc ahvays the UKmlhs which 
are most exempt. In 1881, Oldendorff^^*™^ published a few fiLruros as to (niarlcrlv 
prevalence, and repeated Oesterlen's conclusion as to the hiuiteil importance of the 
temperature factor. 
In the second edition of the ^' Geograpliical and Historical Patho1ojry,"<"'''> Hirsch 
devoted considerable space to a consideration of the meteorological farton? afTcc<ing 
the spread of typhoid fever. He quoted first numerous earlier observer?, to ulium 
references are given in his bibliography. Zlilzer at Berlin and Trier at Copenhagen 
thought that hot and dry weather favored the disease, while others held a wet summer 
to be 
a 
tributory 
Schiefferdecker at Konigsberg, Pribram and Popp 
Prague, and Jacoby at Breslau believed they had traced a connection between typhoid 
and the ground-water 
level. 
Hirsch then gave the very valuable Libles of 
P 
reproduced below, and in comment remarked, "The result ol.tnincd from 
these tables 
amo 
of 
sickness touches its highest 
fully borne out by the facts as to the 
greatest prevalence of typi 
1 • 
many oth 
He ci 
ted Schwerin, Bremen, Iceland, Malta, Italy, the Cnpe 
Greenland, and Newfoundland : and added, " All the more noteworth)^ 
stance that 
opical and subtropical regions, it is chiefly th 
the typhoid season," quo tin 
An analysis of 
Al-iers, Tunis, Japan, India, Cochin China, Bermud 
and Cuba, 
to show any 
the excess of 
typhoid 
of B 
1871 to lb7S failf^d 
ispond 
peratu 
b 
the amount of typhoid m any given ) 
r 
nd 
compared 
the mean 
for the whole period ; and 
author concluded his 
sid 
of the 
bject 
as 
foil 
That no pperial 
1 
nport 
or low 
this connection can be 
bed 
hi/ itself^ follows fr 
fact 
temperature of the 
of the disease falls ^ 
h 
\ 
o 
Uitudes. either in autumn or m.inter;rf>Ie, in .h 
opics, it falls mostly at the time of the g 
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