New York (State). Dept. of Health. Bureau of Communicable Disease Control.

The State Sanitary Code required the Department of Health to identify and legally register chronic typhoid fever carriers, individuals whose digestive wastes continually or intermittently contain Salmonella typhi bacteria one year after recovery from the disease or without having contracted the disease.The Department required district medical officers to report quarterly on the medical status of carriers in their districts, and to review the carriers' compliance with Sanitary Code requirements for personal hygiene. The Department provided financial aid to carriers forced into unemployment because they could no longer work at food-handling jobs. It also subsidized gall bladder and bile duct drainage and gall bladder removal for fecal carriers who were willing to undergo major surgery to release themselves from carrier status.