TYPHOID

In the Spanish-American War twenty-five per cent of the American soldiers contracted typhoid fever. In the present European War the disease has been almost entirely stamped out due to the practice of inoculation.

Experience with typhoid vaccine has shown conclusively its preventive value. The treatment is comparatively simple consisting of three hyperdermic injections of the vaccine at intervals of a week. No scar is left as in the case of vaccination for smallpox.

Although typhoid is rare in Cambridge one may come into contact with it at anytime, especially when travelling. Impure food and water are liable to contain germs of the disease.

Dr. Lee will inoculate members of the University against typhoid free of charge. The treatment is attended by but little discomfort. Not one of the one hundred and Seventy-five men who were inoculated last spring was confined to the Infirmary.