Typhoid Bibliography

Typhoid in Dublin: 

Neighbourhood mortality: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/typhoid-in-dublin

Mortality over time: https://typhoid-cockles-terrorism.vercel.app/

Typhoid in Oxford:

Sanitation and typhoid mortality over time: https://typhoidland.org/wp-content/uploads/int/mapvid/story.html

Adler, Richard, and Elise Mara. Typhoid Fever, A History (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2016).

Barnes, David. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Chakrabarti, Pratik. Bacteriology in British India (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012).

Gradmann, Christoph. “Robert Koch and the invention of the carrier state: tropical medicine, veterinary infections and epidemiology around 1900.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41, no. 3 (2010): 232-240.

Gradmann, Christoph, Mark Harrison, and Anne Rasmussen. “Typhoid and the Military in the Early 20th Century.” Clinical Infectious Diseases 69, no. Supplement_5 (2019): S385-S387.

Hamlin, Christopher. A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain (California: University of California Press, 1990).

Hamlin, Christopher. ““CHOLERA FORCING” The Myth of the Good Epidemic and the Coming of Good Water.” American Journal of Public Health 99, no. 11 (2009): 1946-1954.

Hardy, Anne. The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856–1900 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).

——. “Exorcising Molly Malone: Typhoid and Shellfish Consumption in Urban Britain, 1860-1960.” Workshop Journal 55 (2003): 72-90.

——. “Scientific strategy and ad hoc response: the problem of typhoid in America and England, c. 1910–50.” Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 69, no. 1 (2014): 3-37.

Hardy, Anne. “”Straight back to barbarism”: antityphoid inoculation and the Great War, 1914.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74, no. 2 (2000): 265-290.

Hardy, Anne. Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Jenkins, Aaron Peter, Stacy Jupiter, Ute Mueller, Adam Jenney, Gandercillar Vosaki, Varanisese Rosa, Alanieta Naucukidi, Kim Mulholland, Richard Strugnell, Mike Kama, and Pierre Horwitz. “Health at the Sub-catchment Scale: Typhoid and Its Environmental Determinants in Central Division, Fiji.” EcoHealth 13 (2016): 633-651.

Kirchhelle, Claas, Zoe Anne Dyson, and Gordon Dougan. “A biohistorical perspective of typhoid and antimicrobial resistance.” Clinical Infectious Diseases 69, no. Supplement_5 (2019): S388-S394.

Kirchhelle, Claas. Typhoid: The past, present, and future of an ancient disease (London: Scala 2022).

Kirchhelle, Claas. “The forgotten typers: The rise and fall of Weimar bacteriophage-typing (1921–1935).” Notes and Records 74, no. 4 (2020): 539-565.

Kirchhelle, Claas, and Charlotte Kirchhelle. “Northern Normal–Laboratory Networks, Microbial Culture Collections, and Taxonomies of Power (1939-2000).” ESTS (2024)

Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Typhoid Mary: captive to the public’s health (Beacon Press, 1997).

Luckin, Bill. Death and Survival in Urban Britain: Disease, Pollution, and Environment, 1800–1950 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015).

Mendelsohn, J.A. Cultures of Bacteriology: Formation and Transformation of a Science in France and Germany, 1870-1914. Princeton: Princeton University – PhD Dissertation 1996.

Meiring, J.E., Khanam, F., Basnyat, B. et al. Typhoid fever. Nature Reviews Disease Primers 9, 71 (2023).

Mooney, Graham. Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840–1914 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015).

Pelling, Margaret. “Mythological endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the history of American epidemiology.” Centaurus 64, no. 1 (2022): 231-248.

Saldanha, Sakshi, Claas Kirchhelle, Emily Webster, Samantha Vanderslott, and Manjulika Vaz. “Between paternalism and illegality: a longitudinal analysis of the role and condition of manual scavengers in India.” BMJ Global Health 7, no. 7 (2022): e008733.

Smallman-Raynor, Matthew. Atlas of Epidemic Britain: A Twentieth Century Picture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Steere-Williams, Jacob. “The Perfect Food and the Filth Disease: Milk-Borne Typhoid and Epidemiological Practice in late Victorian Britain.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 65 (2010): 514-545.

Steere-Williams, Jacob. The perfect food and the filth disease: milk, typhoid fever, and the science of state medicine in Victorian Britain, 1850–1900 (University of Minnesota, 2011).

Steere-Williams, Jacob. The filth disease: typhoid fever and the practices of epidemiology in Victorian England (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020).

Tomes, Nancy. The gospel of germs (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Vanderslott, Samantha, Supriya Kumar, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Firdausi Qadri, and Raphaël M. Zellweger. “Typhoid control in an era of antimicrobial resistance: challenges and opportunities.” In Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 10, no. Supplement_1, pp. S47-S52. US: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Vanderslott, Samantha, Maile T. Phillips, Virginia E. Pitzer, and Claas Kirchhelle. “Water and filth: reevaluating the first era of sanitary typhoid intervention (1840–1940).” Clinical Infectious Diseases 69, no. Supplement_5 (2019): S377-S384.

Walker, Joseph, Chrispin Chaguza, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Megan Carey, Stephen Baker, Kamran Khan, Isaac I. Bogoch, and Virginia E. Pitzer. “Assessing the global risk of typhoid outbreaks caused by extensively drug resistant Salmonella Typhi.” Nature communications 14, no. 1 (2023): 6502.

Wall, Rosemary. Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939 (Routledge, 2015).

Webster, Emily, Paula Palanco Lopez, and Claas Kirchhelle. “Shifting targets: typhoid’s transformation from an environmental to a vaccine-preventable disease, 1940–2019.” The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2023).

Webster, Emily. “Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2024) 1-17.

Worboys, Michael. “Almroth Wright at Netley: Modern Medicine and the Military
in Britain, 1892–1902.” In Medicine and Modern Warfare, edited by Roger
Cooter, Mark Harrison, and Steve Sturdy, 77–97 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999).

Cameron, Charles. Reports upon the state of public health for 1880-1920 (Dublin: Joseph Dollard), found in ‘Reports and Printed Documents of the Corporation of Dublin’ (Dublin City Library & Archive)

Cameron, Charles. “On Sewage in Oysters, presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association.” The British Medical Journal 2 (1880): 465-480.

Cameron, Charles. ‘Report on Public Health’, Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 72.1 (1881),  51-67.

Cameron, Charles. ‘Presidential Address to the Congress of Public Health’, The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 1 September 1898.

Cameron, Charles. How the Poor Live (Dublin: John Falconer, 1904).

Corlett, Christian, Darkest Dublin (Dublin: Wordwell, 2008).

Dublin Municipal Council, Dublin Main Drainage Scheme: Souvenir Handbook (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1906).

Joyce, James. Ulysses (Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922).

Local Government Board for Ireland, Report on the shell-fish layings on the Irish coast: as respects their liability to sewage contamination (Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co., 1904).

Local Government Board for Ireland, Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Local Government Board for Ireland to inquire into the housing conditions of the working classes in the City of Dublin (Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co., 1914).

Russell,  Matthew. Report on the state of public health in the city of Dublin for the year 1936 (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1937).

Neville, Parke. Report to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the City of Dublin on the General State of the Public Works of the City under their control (Dublin: Joseph Dollard, 1869).

Webster, Emily. ‘Why moving Dublin Port would be bad for the city’, RTÉ Brainstorm, 4 May 2022 https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0504/1295953-dublin-port-development- climate-change-ecology-history-/

The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly, 1905-1915 (Dublin City Library & Archive).

‘Health of Blackrock’, Weekly Irish Times, October 31 1908.

‘Sea swimmers spill the dirt on Dublin’s ‘polluted’ waters’, The Times, 18 April 2021.