Exterminating Poverty is the true story about the 1921 eugenic plan to get rid of the poor and Dr Halliday Sutherland’s fight against it. The book is available at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.au. Three elements set the conflict in motion: Tuberculosis (TB) – an infectious disease that killed 70,000 Britons each year, mostly among the poor (50,000 died from “Consumption”…

Some of Dr. Halliday Sutherland’s best writing concerns the deaths of close relatives (such as his father) and of patients (example here and here). In A Time To Keep (1934) he wrote about the death of his cousin, Dr. Ian Macdonald, on 14 September 1932. Dr. Macdonald established the Mackay and Macdonald clinic in Huelva,…