An Outbreak of Typhoid Fever Due to Milk Infection
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A consideration of the Edinburgh notification statistics tends to show that the season of greatest prevalence of typhoid fever is during the three autumnal months?September, October, and November. This coincides generally with the statistics of other places in the United Kingdom, and also with Buchan and Mitchell's curve, based on the mortality returns of London. In fact, typhoid fever remains low during the first six months of the year, commencing to increase in August, and reaching the maximum in October, after which it rapidly diminishes. During 1890 the number of cases of typhoid notified in Edinburgh each month was as follows :?
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