jail fever

noun

a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails

Words nearby jail fever

jai, jai alai, jai hind, jail, jail delivery, jail fever, jailbait, jailbird, jailbreak, jailer, jailhouse

Example sentences from the Web for jail fever

  • Far be from me the loss of eyes or limbs, such publicity as the pillory affords, or the grossness of a jail-fever.

    The Heroine |Eaton Stannard Barrett

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

    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker |S. Weir Mitchell

  • Of this kind was the contagious matter, which produced the jail-fever at the assizes at Oxford about a century ago.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I |Erasmus Darwin

  • He was never known to err, and was as much dreaded as the jail-fever in consequence.

    Jack Sheppard, Vol. I (of III) |W. Harrison Ainsworth