{"id":3752,"date":"2018-06-30T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T09:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/?page_id=3752"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:22:47","slug":"typhoid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/typhoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Typhoid is a disease that inflames the intenstines. It is spread through contact with the infection, so can be carried in water, or passed on through contact with an infected person.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Spread and impact of Typhoid<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Poor water supplies in the 19th century meant that the disease could spread easily around cities. It was a disease that claimed many lives, including the lives of several wealthy people: Prince Albert, Queen Victoria&#8217;s husband, for example.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There are known cases of apparently healthy humans carrying the disease and passing it on through their contact with people, water or food. One of the best known Typhoid carriers was Mary Mallon, and irish migrant to America who became known as Typhoid Mary. Her story can be read on the wikipedia website by following <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typhoid_Mary\">this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/\">Public Health in the Industrial Revolution<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/new-machinery-arrives-in-leeds-1796\/\">Impact of new machines<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/workhouses-in-bradford-and-leeds\/\">Workhouses in Bradford and Leeds<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/typhoid\/\">Typhoid outbreaks 1830 &#8211; 1836<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/cholera\/\">Cholera, 1831 Outbreak<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/poor-law-amendment-act-1837\/\">Poor Law Commission [1834, Report 1837]<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/poor-law-amendment-act-1837\/\">Poor Law Commission 1835<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/sanitary-report-of-1842-the-bradford-woolcombers\/\">Bradford Woolcombers Report, 1837<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/public-health-in-victorian-leeds\/\">Report on the conditions of workers in Leeds, 1842<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/chadwicks-sanitary-report\/\">Report on the sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes, Chadwick 1842<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/health-of-towns-association-1844\/\">Health of Towns Association, 1844<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/bradford-health-in-the-1840s\/\">Health in Bradford in the mid 1840&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/medicinethroughtime.co.uk\/historyeras-medical\/public-health-industrial-revolution\/living-conditions-manchester-1844\/\">Health in Manchester, 1844<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/public-health-act-1848\/\">Public Health Act, 1848<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/working-conditions-in-bradford-c1850\/\">Working Conditions in Bradford, 1850<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/population-statistics-1831-1851\/\">Census figures: UK Population statistics 1831 &#8211; 1851<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/john-snow-and-cholera\/\">John Snow&#8217;s work on Cholera, 1854<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/nightingale-school-of-nursing\/\">Nightingale School of Nursing<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/1868-first-sewage-works-in-bradford\/\">Bradford Sewage Works, 1862<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/fight-against-infectious-disease\/louis-pasteur\/\">Louis Pasteur: Germ Theory, 1865<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/living-heritage\/evolutionofparliament\/houseofcommons\/reformacts\/overview\/furtherreformacts\/\">Second Reform Act [External]<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/royal-sanitary-commission\/\">Royal Sanitary Commission, 1869<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25238330?seq=1\">The Public Health Act, 1872 [External]<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/Vict\/38-39\/55\/enacted\">Public Health Act, 1875 [External]<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/works\/h2wa5c4h\">Artizans and Labourers&#8217; Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875 [External]<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/fight-against-infectious-disease\/robert-koch\/\">Tuberculosis Germ identified by Robert Koch, 1882<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/cholera\/\">Cholera Germ identified, 1883<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/health-in-bradford-in-the-1890s\/\">Health in Bradford, Margaret McMillan&#8217;s Report, 1890<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/1907-free-school-meals-in-bradford\/\">Report into the health of Children in Bradford, 1907<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/timelines-medicine\/timeline-of-public-health-over-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timeline of Public Health over time<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/timelines-medicine\/medicine-and-treatments-c1350-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medicine and Treatments c1350-2018<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/themes-in-medical-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Themes in Medical History<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/\">Medicine Through time<\/a><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/medicine-through-time-teachers-resources\/\">Resources for Medicine Through Time<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/prehistoric-medicine-how-did-stone-age-man-heal\/\">Prehistoric Medicine<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/ancient-egyptian-medicine\/\">Ancient Egyptian Medicine<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/medicine-in-ancient-greece\/\">Ancient Greek Medicine<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/medicine-in-ancient-rome\/\">Medicine in the Roman Empire<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/medieval-medicine-was-it-all-plagues-and-pestilence\/\">Medieval Medicine<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/medicine-during-the-renaissance\/\">Renaissance Medicine<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/public-health-in-the-industrial-revolution\/\">Public Health in the Industrial Revolution<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/fight-against-infectious-disease\/\">Fight against infectious disease<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/medicine-through-time\/modern-medicine-c1900-to-the-modern-day\/\">Modern Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoid is a disease that inflames the intenstines. 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