The actual position of the tuberculosis problem today : being [an] address delivered by request at the Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at Birmingham, July, 1923 / by Robert Philip.

  • Robert William Philip
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[1923]
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Credit: The actual position of the tuberculosis problem today : being [an] address delivered by request at the Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at Birmingham, July, 1923 / by Robert Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATURAL DEMAND FOR INFORMATION. It is not unnatural that a disease so widely distributed should be discussed widely. The misfortune lies in the circum- stances and conditions of the discussion and the unblushing assurance attaching to imperfect knowledge. The public are entitled to have full and exact information. The matter concerns intimately their life and health and that of their households. They have a right to know. The desire for help and cure on the part of sufferers is instinctive. These natural demands can be met sanely and safely from accredited sources which in this country have now been placed at the service of all. Admitting freely those just and natural claims it is all the more a pity that the crowd should remain credulous of cheap novelties which are boomed, for the most part, from self- interest. The unfortunate itching for something fresh is not confined to the general body of the people, but emerges vaingloriously within the fighting ranks. The restless bol- shevistic tendency does harm to the cause. It is a main purpose of the Annual Conferences of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis to afford opportunity for the frank discussion of the more imminent questions in connection with the tuberculosis campaign. On the present occasion the local Executive Com- mittee thought it would be helpful to have a Public Address on The Actual Position of the Tuberculosis Problem to-day. Hence our meeting this evening. ; It seems particularly appropriate to make such a review in this place. Through the wisdom of the citizens, voiced in the enlightened policy of the Citv councillors, and thanks to the manifold, untiring labours of the distinguished Medical Officer of Health and his zealous band of coadjutors, Birmingham occupies an honoured and enviable place in the campaign against tuberculosis. The anti-tuberculosis operations of Bir- mingham are viewed with whole-hearted admiration by high authorities throughout the world.
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