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Meurig
I once saw in a copy of Black and White about British troops being 'offered" typhoid vaccine (administered via a surgical cut on the arm). Apparently the vaccine caused much discomfort, arm swelling, dizzyness, etc. I understand that it was not compulsory.
Craig Wilcox (writing in "Australia's Boer War" ) says that most Australian troops were vaccinated against smallpox whilst on the journey to SA. And that "some" Australians were innoculated against typhoid - the problem being that the carrier of typhoid was unknown. He also says that disease killed a smaller number of Australians than Britons during the war - but disease nevertheless caused more than half the fatalities in Australian contingents.
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IL.