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The fight against typhoid – archive, 1932 – The Guardian

19 November 1932: If ‘carriers’ can be detected with any certainty, it is obvious that they should be prevented from doing further damage

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The recent epidemic outbreaks of typhoid in Yorkshire have roused a good deal of public interest, and naturally some measure of public alarm. We live in days in which these things have ceased to be so common that they form a customary part of the national picture. Yet within the lifetime of many of us the state of things was very different. I myself am living in a village where thirty years ago we did not have epidemics of typhoid only because typhoid was always present. The contrast is so manifest…

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