Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — PHILADELPHIA HAS TYPHOID. [ARTICLE]

PHILADELPHIA HAS TYPHOID.

More than Three Hundred Deaths Already This Year. Philadelphia has an epidemic of typhoid fever. The close of the tenth week of the year show’s a mortality from the malady in Philadelphia far in excess of the number of men and officers killed in the battles on land and sea in the war with Spain, and almost equal to the total of those killed in action and those who subsequently died of their wounds. The record so far this year is 3,424 cases and 360 deaths.