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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2019

Water and Filth: Reevaluating the First Era of Sanitary Typhoid Intervention (1840-1940).

Samantha Vanderslott, Maile T Phillips, Virginia E Pitzer, Claas Kirchhelle

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  1. IAPSM's Position Paper on Typhoid Vaccines for Adult Immunization in India.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine · 2024
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  3. Typhoid fever.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023
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  4. Typhoid Fever: A Reduction and a Resurgence.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023
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  8. Typhoid in India: An Age-old Problem With an Existing Solution.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2021
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  10. Toward Control? The Prospects and Challenges of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Introduction.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019
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4 authors.

Samantha VanderslottOxford Vaccine Group/Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Maile T PhillipsDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Virginia E PitzerDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Claas KirchhelleWellcome Unit for the History of Medicine/Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 106158/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While typhoid fever remains an important cause of illness in many low- and middle-income countries, important insights can be learned by exploring the historical experience with typhoid fever in industrialized countries. We used archival research to examine British and American attempts to control typhoid via sanitary interventions from the 1840s to 1940s. First, we assess how varying perceptions of typhoid and conflicts of interest led to a nonlinear evolution of control attempts in Oxford, United Kingdom. Our qualitative analysis shows how professional rivalries and tensions between Oxford's university and citizens ("gown and town"), as well as competing theories of typhoid proliferation stalled sanitary reform until the provision of cheap external credit created cross-party alliances at the municipal level. Second, we use historical mortality data to evaluate and quantify the impact of individual sanitary measures on typhoid transmission in major US cities. Together a historiographic and epidemiological study of past interventions provides insights for the planning of future sanitary programs.

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WaterCitiesCommunicable Disease ControlDeveloped CountriesHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansPublic HealthSanitationSewageTyphoid FeverUnited KingdomUnited StatesSewageWaterpublic health historysanitary reformtyphoid controltyphoid mortality

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PMID31612942
PMCPMC6792102

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