Notes on an Outbreak of Typhus Fever
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a quarantine hospital. The room occupied by the feverpatient was in a dirty condition, and was almost destitute of furniture. The patient lay on a dilapidated bed, with old bags for bed-clothing; an old table and one or two ricketty chairs completed the furniture of the room. All the inmates were removed and the house closed up that same evening. On making further inquiries, I found that in a house
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