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On September 18, 1932 Winston Churchill remained at the Dr. Hromada sanatorium on Josefstrasse in Salzburg, Austria recovering from an illness. He had left England for the continent, accompanied by his wife Clementine and one of his daughters, on August 27 for a holiday that would include visits to the battlefields of the Duke of Marlborough’s campaign. Churchill was then planning to write a biography of his ancestor. He arrived in Salzburg from Munich on September 6, already suffering from a persistent fever. Churchill stayed at the Oesterreichischer Hof in the city until his condition worsened and he was admitted to the sanatorium where he was treated by Professor Ludwig Petschacher, head of the St. Johann Hospital in Salzburg. The illness was diagnosed at paratyphoid and attributed by his doctor to drinking impure water, probably while in Bavaria. On September 18 Churchill was reported to be “quite free of fever” and ready to make a complete recovery. Churchill, indeed, left Salzburg for London on September 22, but suffered a relapse soon after arriving back in England and was admitted to a London nursing home. He remained at the London nursing home until October 10 and took several more weeks to recover after being released to his London residence.