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AT a meeting of the Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine on November 28, Dr. Melville D. Mackenzie read a paper on the control of louse–borne typhus fever in Gredt Britain in the light of experience in Russia, Poland, Rumania and China. After discussing the epidemiological relationship of the disease to movements of population, under–nourishment and climatic conditions, he dealt with the rapidity of the spread of typhus fever, the frequency with which it is associated with other diseases and other factors which might complicate diagnosis, the method of infection, the importance of improved nutrition in. the control of an epidemic, the value of reducing the number of lice in the population generally in addition to the tracing and delousing of contacts, the possible importance of dried faeces in the spread of the disease and the danger of the first cases being overlooked. Stress was laid on the necessity of utilizing young personnel in anti–typhus work. The greatest importance was attributed to the necessity for the thorough disinfestation of patients and contacts, the premises and their contents, as well as of the ambulance and the staff after duty.
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Prevention of Typhus Fever. Nature 148, 749 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148749a0
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