Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 29 September 1911

Typhoid At Mexborough

Thirty-Four Cases Notified To The Authorities

Up to the present the prevailing outbreak typhoid fever at Mexborough has been responsible for the notification of 34 cases.

Of these 30 have been removed to the Isolation Hospital at Conisbrough, the resources of that institution being heavily taxed.

Dr. J. J. Huey (Mexborough’s Medical Officer) and the Sanitary Committee of the local Council have been taking stringent measures with the objective of stamping out the outbreak.

As previously reported in these columns, it is alleged on the one hand that the insanitary condition of certain old property is mainly responsible for the visitation of the dread disease, while it equally insisted in some quarters that more probably the chief contributing cause is the lad drainage arrangements in parts the town.