Abstract
Because of the infrequent reports of typhoid in infants and its relatively low mortality rate, we are reporting this case, which terminated in death twenty-nine hours after the onset of symptoms. The severe neurologic manifestations throughout the short clinical course so camouflaged the true condition that, without findings of a postmortem examination, correct diagnosis may not have even been guessed. Fatal infantile typhoid is rare at the present time. Of 30,000 admissions to the Bellevue Hospital, New York City, covering a period of fifteen years up to 1940, 1 case of typhoid fever was recognized under the age of 2 years. 1 Recent reports indicate that approximately 2 per cent of typhoid cases are in infants 2 and that out of this group a negligible percentage is fatal as compared to a reported 12.5 per cent mortality a few years ago. 3 Typhoid is essentially a disease or injury of
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