On the prevention of consumption : a report.

  • Edinburgh. Public Health Committee.
Date:
1900
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Credit: On the prevention of consumption : a report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY ...... v PART /. PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION .... 3 1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF TUBERCULOSIS . . 7 2. EXTENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE DISEASE . 11 3. COMMUNICABILITY OF CONSUMPTION . 39 4. PREVENTABILITY OF CONSUMPTION . . 48 5. CURABILITY OF CONSUMPTION ... 63 6. THE DUTIES OF MUNICIPALITIES TOWARDS ITS EXTIRPATION, with Recommendations to Edinburgh Town Council . . . . . .71 PART II. REPORT BY SIR HENRY D. LITTLEJOHN, M.I)., LL.D., Medical Officer of Health, on Consumption in Edin- burgh FOR Year 1899 ..... 70 CONFERENCE ON CONSUMPTION, held in Edinburgh, 9th February 1899 . . . lO] RECOMMENDA'ITONS by the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, The 1{,oyal College of Physicians, AND the Royal College of Surgeons, submitted at the request of the Public Health Committee . . 118