55 
persons who moved into a household Avithin three months of the 
onset of the case. 
Number of cases at private residences at which one or more newcomers 
lived within thirty days prior to occurrence rf case 3G 
At hotels, hospitals, and other public institutions 21 
Not determined 3 
No newcomers 163 
Total 523 
Of the neAYComers at priA'ate residences where cases occurred, G 
gaA^e typhoid feAW histories as follows: Four years prior, 1 case; 
fiAT j^ears prior, 1 case; tAA^elAT years prior, 1 case; thirteen A^ears 
prior, 1 case ; twenty A'ears prior, 1 case ; sixty }^ears prior, 1 case. 
For 20 cases the iieAvcomers Avere said to haA’e neATr had typhoid 
feATr and for 10 cases typhoid histories of the newcomers were not 
obtainable. 
In the endeavor to learn Avhat part Avas played b}" servants in the 
transmission of typhoid feAer infection to their employers, the fol- 
loAving data were obtained : 
Seventy-one, or 13 per cent, of the 523 cases occurred at homes at 
Avhich serA^ants were emploi^ed. Of the last 306 cases iuA’estigated 
in 1906 and of which data regarding seiwants Avere obtained, 60, or 
22 per cent, occurred at homes at AAdiich servants were employed. The 
difference in the percentage of cases occurring at homes Avhere there 
Avere servants for the 1906 and the 1907 periods shoAvs very Avell the 
difference in tho class of people affected during the tAvo periods. 
Of the 71 cases occurring in the 1907 period at homes at which 
servants Avere employed, 3 Avere at homes where white servants Avere 
employed and resided, 1 Avas at a home Avhere a white servant was 
employed, but Avho went to his OAvn home at night, 23 Avere at homes 
Avhere colored seiwants were employed and resided, and 44 at homes 
Avhere colored servants Avere emplo}^ed, but who Avent to their oAvn 
homes at night. 
Of the 97 serA’.ants Avho Avere employed at the homes of these 71 
cases the typhoid histories Avere as follows : 
White resident servants who had had typhoid fever (eighteen years prior )_ 1 
"White resident servants AA’ho had not had typhoid feAwr 3 
White nonresident servants AA^ho had had typhoid 0 
White nonresident servants AAdio had not had typhoid 1 
Colored resident servants who had had typhoid (six A’f^ars i)rior) 1 
Colored resident serA’ants Avho had not had typhoid 33 
