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77 stories matching typhoid
- Typhoid Outbreak Strikes Seattle’s Fourth and Fifth Wards
Eight cases of typhoid fever and two deaths have been reported since the start of the year, prompting Health Officer Palmer to urge residents to boil their drinking water.
- An Alarming Rise in Typhoid Cases
Public alarm grows in Tacoma as local health officials downplay a spike in illness, suggesting citizens boil their water while avoiding any official critique of the city's water supply.
- The City Water Crisis
While typhoid fever spreads in Tacoma, a bureaucratic breakdown leaves the Health Officer unaware he was even ordered to investigate the tainted water supply.
- The Hidden Plague of Tacoma
As cases of typhoid fever surge, the local press questions the safety of the city's aging water infrastructure.
- Typhoid Fears in the West End
Tacoma health officials move to contain a potential outbreak linked to a local milk provider.
- Typhoid Outbreak Traced to Wapato Creek Dairies
City and state health officials issue urgent sanitation ultimatum to local dairymen after tracing typhoid fever cases to contaminated creek water.
- City Water Supply Cleared of Typhoid Rumors
Local officials and the state health department address public anxiety following a small cluster of typhoid cases, confirming the city's water supply is safe.
- Typhoid and Scarlet Fever Shadow Seattle's Sewers
Health officer blames bad plumbing and cesspools as 21 typhoid cases, four fatal, are reported; a doctor prepares to test Lake Union and Lake Washington water.
- The Silent Killer in Our Homes
Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology, warns Tacoma citizens that the common housefly is a deadly vector for disease.
- The Healthiest Spot in the Union
In 1884, a physician made the case that Seattle’s mild, stable climate made it a medical anomaly—a city where typhoid was rare and death rates were the envy of the nation.
- The Tragic Passing of Nettie Dinsmore
A beloved Seattle teacher succumbs to typhoid fever, revealing a grim public health warning for the city.
- The Fever Mystery in North Yakima
Local doctors clash with state officials over whether an outbreak is malaria or typhoid fever.
- The Ghost Stories of the City Reservoir
While typhoid fever rages in Tacoma, the city council struggles to address public panic over rumors of bodies dumped in the water supply.
- Typhoid Fears Reach Tacoma’s Water Supply
A fatality linked to the Clover Creek watershed raises alarms about the city's drinking water quality.
- The Hidden Killer in Tacoma's West End
A local health inspector finds a dairy operating in conditions 'too filthy for belief,' threatening a typhoid epidemic for families across the district.
- The Typhoid Warning from Salem
Walla Walla is warned against the dangers of Mill Creek water after an epidemic in Salem, Oregon, exposes the failures of filtration.
- Typhoid Fever Cases Climb in Seattle
Three new cases reported to the city health officer bring the count to twenty-four since January 1.
- Tragedy at the County Poor Farm
A patient suffering from typhoid fever leaps to his death from a third-story window.
- The Typhoid Traps of Third and Jackson
Public health investigators uncover a squalid, overcrowded lodging house where laborers were left to suffer in squalor, exposing the dark underside of Seattle's rapid expansion.
- The Green Pool of Puyallup
A health-hazard stagnant pond in the center of town sparks a call for action.
- A Neighborhood's Battle Against Filth
Tacoma residents at 11th and Sprague demand city action to clear stagnant wells and sloughs breeding typhoid.
- The Filthiest Place in Washington
A state health committee blames criminal negligence and unsanitary conditions for a deadly typhoid outbreak in North Yakima.
- The Doctor’s Bill vs. The Cure: A Colfax Family’s War on Typhoid
When typhoid fever struck a household in Colfax, Washington, one family claims their conventional medical treatment failed—until they turned to the 'hygeic' system of Dr. Glover.
- The Chinese Doctor’s Radical Revival
A Seattle man, presumed dead after two weeks of typhoid fever, was brought back to life by a doctor’s unconventional intervention.
- A Remarkably Low Death Rate—and Nowhere to Put the Fever Cases
Seattle's health officer reports 467 deaths in 1894, credits sewers for cutting typhoid, and asks for a small hospital for diphtheria and scarlet fever.
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- The State Germ Lab in the Burke Block
Seattle's new bacteriological laboratory tested city water, hunted typhoid and tried to make diphtheria antitoxin—while its doctors covered the rent.
- The Silent Dangers of Seattle’s Early Boarding Houses
A 19th-century public health warning reveals the grim reality of sanitation in early Seattle, where overcrowded and poorly drained boarding houses became breeding grounds for typhoid fever.
- The Diphtheria Menace in Pioneer Seattle
A century and a half ago, Seattle residents faced a terrifying invisible contagion, with the newspaper urging 'sanitary' precautions that eerily mirror modern public health guidance.
- Scarlet Fever Sets Seattle's School Board Against Its Health Board
With scarlet fever alarming physicians, the board of health claims power to close the public schools—and the school board is not convinced the charter gives it that right.
- The Slaughterhouse Stench South Seattle Blamed for Scarlet Fever
As an epidemic closed the schools, residents near Grant Street petitioned the board of health to remove stockyards and slaughterhouses they said were breeding disease on the tide flats.
- The Plague at the Doorstep: Seattle’s Battle Against Smallpox in 1877
As smallpox ravages Port Orchard and Salmon Bay, the city's Health Officer takes drastic quarantine measures against Indigenous communities, highlighting the fragile public health infrastructure of early Seattle.
- The Silent Epidemic: Diphtheria in 1880 Seattle
A harrowing, vivid account of the early stages of diphtheria, a 'perplexing theme' of illness that terrorized families and baffled medical practitioners in the Washington Territory.
- A Community Under Siege: The Whidbey Island Diphtheria Outbreak
A harrowing account of how a single family was devastated by diphtheria in Oak Harbor during the summer of 1887.