“…79 As Charlotte Dale argues, during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) the provision of 'food, fluids and palliatives' 80 was the only treatment regimen for typhoid. 81 Although by the Second World War, TAB (typhoid-paratyphoid A and B) vaccination against typhoid was given to all those on active service and there had been some success with using sulphaguanidine against the disease, 82 nursing staff were still required to be hypervigilant with the dietary regimes for those infected. Such care was not always easy with rations of 'bully beef and biscuits'.…”