Our History | Launceston's insidious foe: typhoid

By Catherine Pearce, Launceston Historical Society
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:57am, first published June 6 2020 - 4:30pm

It is unheard of for typhoid to be a cause of death in Launceston today, but in the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th, 'the fever' was a frequent visitor. The press described it as an 'Insidious Foe.'

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