TYPHOID FEVER IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
53 
Occupations. 
Number of persons en- 
gaged in occupations 
(census of 1900) . 
Number of cases of 
typhoid feyer. 
Male. 
Female. 
Total. 
Male. 
Female. 
Total. 
Trade and transportation — Continued 
Merchants and dealers; 
Retail 
3,945 
176 
418 
4,363 
176 
6 
6 
Wholesale .... 
1 
1 
Messengers, errand, and office boys 
1, 345 
1,345 
104 
8 
8 
Newsboys, newspaper carriers 
104 
4 
4 
Officials of banks and companies 
390 
390 
9. 
2 
Porters and helpers in stores, etc 
921 
921 
4 
4 
Salesmen and saleswomen 
Steam railroad employees 
2,644 
1,185 
1,320 
3, 964 
1,185 
1,229 
817 
9 
9 
8 
17 
9 
Stenographers and t's’pewriters 
521 
708 

9 
9 
Street railway employees 
sy? 
5 
5 
Telegraph and telephone operators 
307 
(?) 
307 
1 
1 
Mechanical and manufacturing. 
Bakers 
622 
622 
1 
1 
Blacksmiths 
775 
775 
2 
2 
Bookbinders . . 
405 
279 
684 
1 
1 
Brick and tile makers 
195 
195 
1 
1 
Butchers 
569 
569 
2 

2 
Carpenters and joiners 
2,298 
212 
2,298 
212 
10 
10 
Confectioners 
2 
2 
Dressmakers 
2,993 
2,993 
1,116 
1 
1 
Engineers, firemen (not locomotiye) 
1,116 
2 
2 
Engrayers 
144 
144 
2 
2 
Iron and steel workers 
300 
300 
3 
3 
Machinists 
1,392 
1,392 
12 
12 
Marble and stone cutters 
272 
272 
1 
1 
Masons (brick and stone) 
1,153 
1,441 
363 
1.153 
1 
1 
Painters, glaziers, yarnishers, etc 
1,441 
2 
2 
Paper hangers 
363 
1 
► 1 
Plasterers 
465 
465 
4 

4 
Plumbers, gas and steam fitters 
1,074 
2, 842 
18, 788 
1,074 
3,323 
39,904 
4 
• 
4 
Printers, hthographers, pressmen, and press- 
women 
Miscellaneous. 
Persons attending school 
Infants and small children 
481 
21,116 
9 
101 
36 
3 
98 
32 
12 
199 
68 
Housewiyes 
“35,000 
35,000 
78 
78 
Decorators 
1 
1 
Postmen 
1 
1 
Packers of seeds, Saratoga chips, etc 
2 
2 
Piano tuners 
2 
2 
Inmates of institutions 
6 
2 
8 
No occupation 
9 
44 
53 
Not stated 
2 
3 
5 
1 
Total 
399 
348 
747 
j 
a Our estimate. 
INFECTION BY CONTACT. 
Forty-six of the cases gave a history of having had free and inti- 
mate association with typhoid patients in the febrile stage of the 
disease. Of these, 11 were attributed to infection by milk, and 3 
