jail fever

noun

1. a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails

Example Sentences

Far be from me the loss of eyes or limbs, such publicity as the pillory affords, or the grossness of a jail-fever.

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Consequently dysentery, smallpox and jail fever made fearful ravages.

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At the end of a week Lettsom found him in the true jail-fever, or, what is the same, a true workhouse-fever.

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He had caught the jail fever, which had long raged in the Carcel de la Corte, where I was imprisoned.

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Upon it was the body of another poor prisoner, dead of jail fever.

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