TREASURY DEPARTMENT Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States HYGIENIC LABORATORY. BULLETIN NO. 52 OCTOBER, 1909 REPORT No. 3 ON THE ORIGIN AND PREVALENCE OF TYPHOID (1908) BRARY By M. J. ROSENAU, L. L. LUMSDEN and JOSEPH H. KASTLE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ORGANIZATION OF HYGIENIC LABORATORY. WALTER WYMAN, Surgeon-General, United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. ADVISORY BOARD. Major Walter D. McCaw, Surgeon, U. S. Army; Surgeon John F. Urie, U. S. Navy; Dr. A. D. Melvin, Chief of U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, and Milton J. Rosenau, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, ex officio. Prof. William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Prof. Simon Flexner, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York; Prof. Victor C. Vaughan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Prof. William T. Sedgwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., and Prof. Frank F. Wesbrook, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. LABORATORY CORPS. Director. Surgeon Milton J. Rosenau. Assistant director.—Passed Assistant Surgeon John F. Anderson. Acting libtarian E. RIK FSH2... DIVISION OF PATHOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY. Chief of division.-Surgeon Milton J. Rosenau. Assistants. Passed Assistant Surgeons John F. Anderson, Claude H. Lavinder, L. L. Lumsden, Herbert M. Manning, W. H. Frost; and Walter D. Cannon, M. D. DIVISION OF ZOOLOGY. Chief of division.-Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D. Assistants.-Passed Assistant Surgeon Joseph Goldberger, Charles G. Crane, B. S., and George F. Leonard, A. B. DIVISION OF PHARMACOLOGY. Chief of division.-Reid Hunt, Ph. D., M. D. Assistants.-Atherton Seidell, Ph. D., W. H. Schultz, Ph. D., Worth Hale, M. D., Murray Galt Motter, M. D., Martin I. Wilbert, Ph. M., and Renè de M. Taveau, A. B. DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY. Chief of division.-Joseph H. Kastle, Ph. D. Assistants.-Assistant Surgeon Norman Roberts and Elias Elvove, M. S. Case and death rates for calendar years 1908, 1907, and 1906..... Typhoid fever death rate of Washington as compared with that of other cities.. Parallelism in the typhoid death rates of Richmond, Va., and Washington, D. C. Death rate in the District of Columbia since 1900 from several infectious diseases |