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And yet it is still often affirmed that typhoid fever is a rural disease and implied if not stated that city people who spend vacations in the country are more liable to contract typhoid fever there than they would be if they stayed in the city. We have here therefore, as already said, a ?at contradiction between conditions reputed to exist and conditions according to modern ideas to be expected; and it is this contradiction which has seemed to us to require explanation, and has induced us to examine into the facts and to prepare the present paper.
The question at issue is simply whether, in proportion to the population, typhoid fever is more prevalent over rural or over urban areas; and for an answer we have turned to the mortality statistics of Massachusetts as a state having trustworthy records and one with which we are personally familiar. These statistics we have examined from various points of View with special reference to the question at issue. For control, we have made a similar though less minute study of the mortality statistics of a more rural contigu ous state, New Hampshire, as well as those of Connecticut, another contiguous state which for various reasons is also instructive in this connection. Brief references have likewise been made to the mortality statistics of foreign countries, such as England and Wales, Scotland, and Germany.
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