• DOI:10.1179/bst.2002.27.1.49
• Corpus ID: 161282182

Was It Really Typhus?

@article{Roberts2002WasIR,
  title={Was It Really Typhus?},
  author={Jack Ellsworth Roberts},
  journal={Bront{\"e} Studies},
  year={2002},
  volume={27},
  pages={49 - 53}
}

• J. Roberts
• Published 1 March 2002
• Medicine
• Brontë Studies

Abstract Examines the nature of the illness that took place at Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School in 1825. A distinction is made between typhoid infection caused by the contamination of food and water supplies, and true, louse-borne, typhus. After examining the surviving evidence, the author concludes that the illness was probably one of the paratyphoids caused by poor kitchen hygiene.