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OCCUPATION OF PATIENT. 
Idaho . — “Spotted fever” is mostly confined to teamsters, who camp out during 
the summer months (Figgins, 1896, p. 64) . Stockmen in general, but particularly 
sheep men, prospectors, and miners, are special prey of this disease, as their occupa- 
tions take them into the mountains. These men are exposed to all kinds of weather 
day and night, sleep on damp ground, in damp beds, their meals are irregular, their 
food is coarse and poorlj^ cooked, and proper personal cleanliness seems to be out of 
the question (Maxey, 1899, p. 434). Spotted fever occurs among stockmen, miners, 
and other mountaineers (Medical Sentinel, 1899, p. 456). 
Montana . — Anderson (1903c, p. 8) states that all occupations that cause the person 
to he exposed to the bite of ticks, such as stockmen, and especially sheep herders, 
miners, prospectors, lumbermen, ranchmen, and those whose duties take them into 
the brush, are subject to the disease. 
Wilson and Chowning (1902a, p. 132; 1903a, p. 12; 1904a, pp. 34-35) state that the 
population of the Bitter Boot Valley is made up largely of fairly well-to-do ranchers, 
the majority of whom have come from Missouri, Georgia, and the Carolinas. They 
are, as a rule, cleanly and healthy. The lumber industry is an important one, and 
many cases of spotted fever have arisen about sawmills and on ground recently 
cleared of timber. 
Taking the occupations as given by Wilson and Chowning for cases 1 
to 121, and adding others reported by Anderson (1903c) and those col- 
lected for the Bitter Root Valle}" by Ashburn and myself, we have the 
following data: 
Thirty-eight patients were children, or boys and girls, as follows: 4 schoolboys, 4 
schoolgirls; 30 children, occupation not given, but probably most of them lived on 
farms. 
Twenty-six patients were housewives or housekeepers, probably the majority on 
farms. 
Twenty patients were connected with farms, as follows: 19 farmers or ranchmen, 
1 farmer’s daughter. 
Sixteen patients were connected with the lumber industry, as follows: 10 lum- 
bermen, 2 lumber jacks, 1 lumber cruiser, 1 sawmill man, 1 business man, who had 
been at a sawmill. 
Eleven patients are listed as laborers, but the kind of labor is not stated. 
Eleven patients are not listed relative to their occupation. Two patients are listed 
as trappers; 2 patients are listed as prospectors; 4 patients are listed (1 each) as 
stonemason, teamster, miner, and telegraph operator (who was in the valley on 
other work at the time. ) 
Two female patients are listed (1 each) as nurse and school-teacher. 
In this list it is striking’ that a very large number of the patients 
were either on farms or connected with the lumber industry, but it 
should be remembered that farming and lumbering are the chief occu- 
pations in the valley; hence, other things being equal, these occupa- 
tions would be expected to furnish a large percentage of the patients. 
In Gates’s statistics the following occupations are given : 
Four children (2 boys, 2 girls), 1 housewife, 6 ranchmen, 1 sheep herder, 1 stock- 
man, 1 trapper, 1 freighter, 1 nurse. 
