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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the State Board of Health: For the Period Ending December 31, 1918 Our knowledge of typhoid bacillus carriers had its beginning in 1902 when Drigalski and Conradi found that the stools of persons who had been in close contact with typhoid patients frequently contained typhoid bacilli, although these individuals were in perfect health and gave no history of having had the disease. Soon afterwards it was discovered that at least one to two per cent of convalescents from typhoid fever continued to excrete the bacilli in the urine and stools for a considerable period of time. Since that time it has been conclusively demonstrated that from two to five per cent of all persons who have typhoid fever become either temporary or chronic bacillus carriers, and that at least two or three of every ten thousand healthy residents of any com munity are such carriers. In some instances the bacilli have been found in the feces almost in pure culture. In fact. It seems that they may practically replace the colon bacilli of the intestinal tract. Ou the other hand, there have been found many carriers who are only intermittent disseminators of the bacilli. In most of these cases, the biliary apparatus seems to be the seat of infection, from which the bacilli periodically find their way into the intestine and are discharged with the feces. Many of these carriers continue to excrete typhoid bacilli for twenty to thirty years or more, or presumably throughout the remainder of their lives. Typhoid bacilluria, on the other hand, generally persists only for a short period after convalescence. E. H. Ruediger, however, has recently reported a typhoid carrier of nine years duration who was found, on operation, to have a typhoid abscess of the kidney. A similar case was reported by Ravenel of Wisconsin in 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.