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jail-fever, gaol-fever|ˈdʒeɪlˈfiːvə(r)|
[f. jail, gaol n. + fever n.]
A virulent type of typhus-fever, formerly endemic in crowded jails, and frequent in ships and other confined places.
[1750Pringle (title) Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jail Fevers.] 1753J. Pringle in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 42 Cases of the true goal-fever arising from the gaol itself. 1780Gentl. Mag. Dec. 578/1 No signs of a jail-fever were ever discovered in the Russian prisons. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 356 The gaol fever is seldom to be met with except on board of ships or in crowded towns. 1887Syd. Soc. Lex., Gaol fever, a term for a very infectious and fatal fever which at various times..has broken out in crowded, dirty prisons... There is no doubt that this was Typhus fever generated in the prison out of the filth, and overcrowding, and bad diet and close foul air. 1898Besant Orange Girl II. xxii, Her cheek grew pale and thin: her eyes became unnaturally bright: I feared gaol-fever. |