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Title	[Letter from Charles McIver to parent of student about typhoid epidemic]
Date	1899-11-14
Creator	McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906
Topics	Teachers UNCG
Description	A letter from the President of the State Normal and Industrial College to Thomas Dickens concerning the illness of his daughter, Esther W. Dickens. McIver writes that Esther is "not improving so rapidly as we had reason to suppose she would." " McIver writes that several students have gotten ill and that the two physicians, Dr. W.P. Beall or Dr. Anna Gove thought the illness came from local sources. The doctors say "there is no case of typhoid fever." He also points out that the Bulletin of Health lists a number of malarial fever cases in many counties in the state. Also he has been told that many of the students who are currently were ill in the recent summer and fall before school started.
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	UA002.1.011
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
Transcript	November 14, 1899. Mr. Thomas Dickens, My Dear Sir: Your daughter, who has been sick for several days with chills, is still confined to her bed and is not improving so rapidly as we had reason to suppose she would. A number of new cases similar to hers have developed within the past week, and, while we cannot assign any local cause therefore, yet the trouble is evidently a malarial one, and I feel that you ought to know that there are a number of cases similar to that of your daughter. In addition to our regular resident physicians we have, as consulting physician and assistant in the care of patients, Dr. W.P. Beall, of this city, who is a member of the State Board of Health. Neither he nor Dr. Gove thought at first that there was any local cause for chills and fever, nor can they see any cause for it now. They assure me that there is no case of typhoid fever. I will call you attention to the fact that the Bulletin of Health for September, published in Raleigh, gibes official information that there is malarial fever "in all parts" of a large number of counties, among them, Caswell, Alamance, Guilford, Davidson, Cabarrus, and Mecklenburg. I find that a number of those students who have had chills and some fever following had the same trouble during the past summer and fall before coming to Greensboro. Indeed, we always have during the latter part of the first month and in the second month of the college year several cases of this kind, but the number of cases we have now is unusual, and I feel that I would not be giving you full information in regard to the matter without stating this fact. Very truly yours, President.
OCLC number	872132883

[Letter from Charles McIver to parent of student about typhoid epidemic]

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