jail-fever

After the breach between the American colonies and the mother-country, the system of transportation to the Transatlantic plantations ceased; it was in the succeeding years that the foul holes called prisons, killed their thousands, and "jail-fever" its tens of thousands.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

It has long been known under the names of hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

It has long been known under the names of hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

After the breach between the American colonies and the mother-country, the system of transportation to the Transatlantic plantations ceased; it was in the succeeding years that the foul holes called prisons, killed their thousands, and “jail-fever” its tens of thousands.

Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884

As usual, the prisoner's dock, in view of possible jail-fever, was strewn with sweet-smelling herbs-fennel, rosemary and the like.

De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880

When told that this man Wynne had jail-fever, the captain seemed in haste to leave.

Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

There were fifteen thousand prisoners, of whom three thousand died of jail-fever.

France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

But the sufferings they had gone through, and the terribly foul air of the _orangerie_, had so broken them down that most of them were stricken by a kind of jail-fever.

France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

He was quite incapable of work all the next day, and Mistress Headley began to dread that he had brought home jail-fever, and insisted on his being inspected by the barber-surgeon, Todd, who proceeded to bleed the patient, in order, as he said, to carry off the humours contracted in the prison.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Gate, with the view of purifying the prison, which, owing to its insufficient space and constantly-crowded state, was never free from that dreadful and contagious disorder, now happily unknown, the jail-fever.

Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843