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Title	[Letter from Ronald H. Lewis to Charles McIver about typhoid epidemic]
Date	1899-12-08
Creator	Lewis, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1850-1926
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906
Topics	Teachers UNCG
Description	A letter from the North Carolina State Board of Health member Dr. Richard H. Lewis to the Charles D. McIver, President of the State Normal and Industrial College. The letter discusses various methods of contamination that may have led to the typhoid outbreak on campus.
Type	Text
Original format	Correspondence
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	UA2.1 Charles Duncan McIver Records, 1855-1906
Series/grouping	2.1: State Normal Records/Correspondence
Finding aid link	http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/university_archives/html/2_1.htm
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	UA002.1.006
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
Transcript	North Carolina State Board of Health, Office of the Secretary, 217 North Wilmington Street. MEMBERS : Geo. G. Thomas, M. D., President Wilmington . S. Westray Battle, M. D., Asheville . Henry W. Lewis, M. D., Jackson . H. H. Dodson, M. D., Milton . C. J. O'Hagan, M. D., Greenville. J. L. Nicholson, M. D., Richlands . Albert Anderson, M. D., Wilson . A. W. Shaffer, Sanitary Engineer, Raleigh. Richard H. Lewis, M. D., Sec. and Treas., Raleigh. Raleigh, 12/8/99 . President McIver, Greensboro,N.C., My dear Dr.McIver:- Yours of 5th inst.with enclosures duly received and all read with interest. I had already seen in the papers an account of the absurd pig post-mortem,and the disclosures in Dr.S.'s letter are little less ridiculous. The whole thing reminds me of the actions of the mother partridge when one goes too near her nest in her efforts to distract attention from the locality. I would be glad to know exactly what you found upon further investigation of the leaking pipe,or rather of the ground where it had been. I agree in the general opinion that it was almost certainly the cause of the fever,but by contaminating the water and not by throwing off the germs into the air. This letter may be true but I thik it extremely doubtful. Dr.Anderson reports that he did not find any typhoid germs in the dust from the butter-room and store-room. If they had ever floated in the air they must have lodged upon the shelves of the former it seems to me#. I await Abbott's report with interest. How did the well at the Teague house become infected? It must have been from the sewer so near it. Please have that most thoroughly looked into and let me know the result. Also communicate any new discoveries should any be made. I learn of the continued mortality with sincere regret,but I hope there may be no more deaths. The fever seems to have been of unusual severity. Please remember me to Dr.Gove and thank her for her letter stating her method in obtaining samples. Sincerely yours, Rich H. Lewis
OCLC number	872132792

[Letter from Ronald H. Lewis to Charles McIver about typhoid epidemic]

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