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The scourge of typhoid ripped through mining camps across Western Australia, but it was not only miners who caught the disease. The  disease peaked over the 1890s and 1900s. The Western Australia gold fields boasted the” largest episode of epidemic typhoid in Australia’s history”, according to the Western Australia museum. “In the early years ofContinue reading “Typhoid takes down strong policeman”