1917 - Typhoid Breaks Out At Sherbrooke, Que. Fifty Cases of Most Malignant Type Attributed to Bad Drinking Water.

Special to the Journal.
SHERBROOKE, Que., March 2. - There are fifty cases of typhoid fever here now and the health authorities attribute the cause to impure drinking water. The disease is of a very malignant type and a number of deaths have occurred. In one family, father, mother and two sons died within a few hours of each other.