TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
THIRTY-FIVE CASES IN CHICAGO
OUTBREAK TRACED TO DISEASE-CARRIER
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright New York, December 27. There are thirty-five cases of typhoid in Chicago Three deaths have occurred, and five other cases are still serious. The epidemic lias been traced to Margaret Benge, an eighty-year-old typhoid carrier. The State Health Commissioner states that in November last Margaret Benge cooked a squash taken from her garden, and that everyone who ate this dish caught the disease malignantly.
Margaret Benge had typhoid in the ’sixties, and was years ago recognised as a carrier. She agreed to avoid handling other people’s food, and promised not to mingle with people outside her home.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 29 December 1925, Page 6
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