Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses, and how to combat it : prize essay / by S.A. Knopf ; adapted for use in England by J.M. Barbour.

  • Sigard Adolphus Knopf
Date:
1902
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Credit: Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses, and how to combat it : prize essay / by S.A. Knopf ; adapted for use in England by J.M. Barbour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION In presenting an English translation of this essay, originally written in German, Dr. Knopf found it necessary to change several passages, making some additions and omissions. His reasons for having done so will be obvious to all who have studied pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption, not only in its medical, but also in its sociological aspects, and who will bear in mind the fact that the habits of nations differ, and that in a popular essay it is absolutely necessary to take these differences into account. Thus it was even necessary, before the original German essay could appear in print, that the author should consent to make certain changes bearing on the particular local conditions and situation of the consumptive poor in Germany. These changes were suggested in detail by the judges who awarded the prize. With a generosity which cannot be lauded too highly, these gentlemen did not expect to find in the essays, submitted to them for competition from all over the world, a complete knowledge of the sanitary laws and regulations which are now in vogue in the German Empire, nor did they expect the essayists to be familiar with local conditions to the extent of knowing all that would or would not be practicable in the carrying out of suggestions to prevent the spread or the development of tuber- culous diseases. | The social conditions in Germany differ very much from those in England, and the writer felt it his duty to speak in this English edition of all the important points bearing directly on the question of tuberculosis as a ‘social disease’ in England. The evils of alcoholism, of the overcrowding of tenement houses, and of unsanitary dwellings of the poor in general, also some of the causes of malnutrition or underfeeding of the labouring
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