lake-fever

On these lowly couches lay extended two poor men, suffering under the wasting effects of lake-fever.

The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

Crossing this bridge-road, now in good order, but in 1837 requiring great dexterity and agility to pass, you come to a slight elevation of the land, and a little village in West Gwillimbury, which, I should think, is a capital place to catch lake-fever in.

Canada and the Canadians Volume I Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819