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Meanings of jail fever in English

Russian
сыпняк
Portuguese
tifo epidémico
Spanish
tifo
Catalan
tifus exmantemàtic
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Group of infectious diseases.

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сыпняк
Usage of jail fever in English
1
There is an outbreak on the hulks-itsounds like jail fever.
The Only Victor
2
Lord Bacon declared the jail fever "the most pernicious infection next to the plague."
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
3
He had caught the jail fever, which had long raged in the Carcel de la Corte, where I was imprisoned.
The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
4
"I understood that he died of a jail fever, caught at the Assizes, where he was serving on-whatdo you call it?"
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman