Abstract
In the period from 1906 to 1910 the typhoid death rate for the eighteen Middle Atlantic States was 23 per 100,000. In 1933 it was 0.81 per 100,000. Conceivably that remarkable record may be dangerous. In times of peril, men are alert. With the signs of acute danger long absent, carelessness is oftentimes born. When a people are actively threatened, funds for defense are readily forthcoming. When the danger is abated it becomes difficult to sell the idea of an army of wartime efficiency. In spite of the tremendous steps in the reduction of typhoid incidence it must be emphatically stated that typhoid fever is not in any sense of the word a conquered disease. It will not be conquered in this generation nor in your children's generation. It is merely an enemy fended off for the moment with some measure of
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