Enteric Fever (later known as Typhoid) took hold of Blantyre in the 1890s. That decade, typhoid fever was a common disease that affected people of all social classes , but there was still uncertainty then about what caused it. In September 1893, a report was submitted by the Blantyre Water and Drainage Committee. Mr Whyte […]
Tag: outbreak
Typhoid Fever 1939
1939 didn’t get off to a good start for Blantyre. Just a year before World War 2, Typhoid fever broke out in the East End of Blantyre. Newspaper reports in the first week of January commented, “At present only four cases are known to the authorities and it is officially emphasised that there is no cause […]


