Wow I did a google search on Tphoid and could not beleive how many people died in the year 1906 alone . There are those who are just carrier's and don't die from it. 1906 The best known carrier was "Typhoid Mary"; Mary Mallon was a cook in Oyster Bay, New York in 1906 who is known to have infected 53 people, 5 of whom died. After being identified as a carrier, she was forcibly detained for three years and released on the promise that she would never again handle food. Five years after her release, she was found to have been the source of 25 cases of typhoid at the Women's Hospital in Manhattan 1906 Hannah E. Carl, died onDecember 12, Typhoid Fever, age 18-0-0, buried on December 15, Single Grave. ... In Philadelphia in 1906, six years before the ... water, 1,063 people died of typhoid Report on the Origin and Prevalence of Typhoid Fever in the District of Columbia (Rosenau, Lunsden, and Kastle, February 1907). A United States Public Health and Marine Hospital directive of 27 June 1906 ordered Rosenau to study why typhoid fever had been so prevalent in Washington, D.C., in the year prior to June 1906. Although the study revealed that only a minority of cases could be attributed to impure water and milk, the publicity sparked campagins to clean up water and milk supplies. Louis P. Cain, Loyola University of Chicago and Northwestern University and Elyce J. Rotella, Indiana University Using that definition, there are 187 mortality shocks with heavy concentrations in the years 1906-10, quite a few in the war years, and almost none in the 1920s. It is recognized by the sudden onset of sustained fever, severe headache, nausea and severe loss of appetite. It is sometimes accompanied by hoarse cough and constipation or diarrhoea. Salmonella Typhi lives only in humans. Persons with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. In addition, a small number of persons, called carriers , recover from typhoid fever but continue to carry the bacteria. Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their feces (stool). You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage. Once S. Typhi bacteria are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream. The body reacts with fever and other signs and symptoms. Jeanie