The Prevention of Tuberculosis (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and annihilating tuberculosis altogether. Being written in the earlier years of the twentieth century, the book will not only be of interest to medical students and practitioners, but also to historians.

Arthur Newsholme Sir

Preface; Part I Causation Of Tuberculosis; Chapter I Magnitude Of The Evil: A. Mortality; Chapter II Magnitude Of The Evil: B. Sickness And Economics; Chapter III Are The Statistics Relating To Tuberculosis Trustworthy ?; Chapter IV The History Of Phthisis; Chapter V The Morbid Anatomy And Symptoms Of Phthisis; Chapter VI The Tubercle Bacillus; Chapter VII Infectivity of Tuberculosis: A. History of Views Held; Chapter VIII Infectivity of Tuberculosis: B. Experimental Evidence; Chapter IX Infectivity of Tuberculosis: C. Statistical and Clinical Evidence; Chapter X Latency in Tuberculosis; Chapter XI Sources Of Infection; Chapter XII Sources Of Infection (Continued)-Dust And Spray; Chapter XIII Circumstances Limiting The Amount Of Infection By Dust And Spray; Chapter XIV The Portals Of Infection: A. Infection By Inhalation; Chapter XV The Portals Of Infection: B. Infection By Ingestion; Chapter XVI Relation Of Bovine to Human Tuberculosis; Chapter XVII Evidence of The Occurrence of Bovine Tuberculosis in Man; Chapter XVIII Tuberculosis from Meat and From Milk and Other Dairy Products; Chapter XIX Domestic Infection; Chapter XX Infection in Attendance on The Sick; Chapter XXI Industrial Infection; Chapter XXII Susceptibility to Infection; Chapter XXIII Age and Sex; Chapter XXIV Personal Conditions Lowering Resistance to Infection; Chapter XXV Hereditary Disposition to Phthisis; Chapter XXVI Conditions Of Environment Lowering Resistance to Infection; Social Misery; and Insanitary Circumstances; Chapter XXVII Climate and Soil; Part II The Incidence of Tuberculosis Upon Communities; Chapter XXVIII Introductory; Chapter XXIX Tuberculosis and General Health in various Communities: Virulence, Natural Selection, and Decadence; Chapter XXX Tuberculosis in Urban and in Rural Communities; Chapter XXXI Tuberculosis in Overcrowded Communities; Chapter XXXII Tuberculosis In Communities of Varying Well-Being; Chapter XXXIII Tuberculosis In Communities of Varying Sanitary Education And Sanatorium Provision; Chapter XXXIV The General Relationship of Institutional Segregation to Tuberculosis and Certain other Infectious Diseases; Chapter XXXV Tuberculosis in Communities with Varying Amounts of Institutional Segregation; Chapter XXXVI The Relative Influence of Institutional Segregation and of Other Measures for the Control of Tuberculosis; Part III Measures for the Reduction and Annihilation of Tuberculosis; Chapter XXXVII General Nature of Preventive Measures: Indirect Measures; Chapter XXXVIII The Early Recognition of Phthisis in Relation to its Prevention; Chapter XXXIX The Medical Practitioner in Relation To Preventive Measures Against Phthisis; Chapter XL The Consumptive Patient in Relation to Preventive Measures against Phthisis; Chapter XLI The Prevention of Indiscriminate Expectoration; Chapter XLII The Notification of Phthisis; Chapter XLIII The Sanitary Authority in Relation to Preventive Measures against Phthisis; Chapter XLIV Education Authorities And Tuberculosis; Chapter XLV The Board of Guardians and the Prevention of Phthisis; Chapter XLVI Insurance and Friendly Societies in Relation to the Prevention of Phthisis; Chapter XLVII Dispensaries and the Prevention of Phthisis; Chapter XLVIII The Role of Sanatoria in the Treatment and Prevention of Phthisis; Chapter XLIX The Institutional Treatment of Phthisis From The Public Health Standpoint; Chapter L The Prevention of Tuberculosis Due To Infected Food; Chapter LI The Co-Ordination of Measures Against Tuberculosis;