Month: August 2017
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Regard their environment
In this excerpt from Dr Sutherland’s speech Consumption: Its Cause and Cure, he talked about the environment in which consumption thrived. Regard their environment: when a population is overcrowded and underfed living in dark tenements, or in back-to-back houses, breathing foul or twice-breathed air in ill-ventilated rooms seldon lit by the sun, working long hours…
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Was Consumption inherited?
The Centenary of Dr Sutherland’s speech Consumption: Its Cause and Cure occurs on 4th September 2017. Here is an excerpt in which he posed the question: Is the illness inherited? Which he then answered: It is not. No child is born tuberculous; nay more, every child who acquires the disease is infected after birth. There is not even,…
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Poisonous milk
The Centenary of Dr Sutherland’s speech Consumption: Its Cause and Cure occurs on 4th September 2017. Here is an excerpt in which Dr Sutherland laments the failure to prevent deaths of 10,000 from tuberculous milk and indifference to the problem. Tubercule bacilli in the milk of tuberculous cattle cause half the cases where this disease…
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Consumption Stories 5
Consumption Stories from the Frontline is part of the build up to the centenary of Consumption: Its Cause and Cure, an address by Dr Halliday Sutherland on 4th September 2017. In this fifth of five articles, Dr Sutherland tells of life at the St Marylebone Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption in 1911, in his own…
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Consumption Stories 4
Consumption Stories from the Frontline is part of the build up to the centenary of Consumption: Its Cause and Cure, an address by Dr Halliday Sutherland on 4th September 2017. In this fourth of five articles, Dr Sutherland tells of life at the St Marylebone Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption in 1910, in his own…