THE TYPHOID CARRIER PROBLEM

21 March 1942

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 118 (12) , 964-967
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1942.02830120028008

Abstract

The medical and economic importance of the typhoid carrier problem is readily estimated when one realizes that as many as 44 per cent of all cases of typhoid are due to carriers.¹Gay²in 1918 stated that 150,000 cases of typhoid occur yearly in the United States with an annual production of approximately 7,500 carriers. Cumming³calculated that in Washington, D. C., in 1930, twenty years after commencement of preventive measures against typhoid, there were 671 carriers per hundred thousand of the population. Stebbins⁴estimated that as of Jan. 1, 1936 there were approximately 5,000 typhoid carriers in New York State exclusive of New York City. This city reported 405 chronic typhoid carriers under the supervision of the department of health as of July 1, 1936.⁵At the close of 1939 there were 422 typhoid carriers under supervision in upstate New York.⁶Bigelow and

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