Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine: For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1888And yet typhoid fever is a disease which has considerable etio logical relationship with cholera. It, like cholera, is dependent upon a germ, the derivation of which is from the intestinal contents and, as in cholera, the most frequent way of becoming infected with typhoid fever is to drink the excretions of typhoid fever patients, or the bacilli which are derived from their excreta. If we do not, as the natives of India do, wash our dirty and infected clothes directly in our water supplies, we do, some of us, pour our slops and excretions where they may run or soak into wells or springs used as sources of drinking-water or empty our sewage into public water supplies.The prevalence of typhoid fever varies very much in different countries and different towns in accordance with the chances for polluting their water supplies We would refer our readers in this connection to pages 172 and 275 of this report. In France the annual loss of the country from typhoid fever is enormous, especially in the army, and the leading sanitarians are calling upon the govern ment to put a stop to so disastrous and useless a tax.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.