Preventive medicine as applied to pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

This Thesis is the outcome of several years* practical experience in all aspects of the tuberculosis problem. Having been Resident Physician at a Sanatorium, Medical Officer to a Tuberculosis Dispensary^and a Research Scholar in the scientific side of Tuberculosis, I feel that I have seen almost every view of the question. When to this is added my experience in practical sanitation gained as Assistant Medical Office of Health for the Boroughs of Leith and Derby.and for the City of Lincoln, I feel that I am in some degree qualified to express an opinion on the public health aspects of the disease Tuberculosis.

In the course of this Thesis there will be included several pieces of original work, in addition to a digest of a considerable amount of literature on the subject. The main part of the thesis, however, will consist of the exposition of views which I have come to regard as essential to the success of any campaign on the part of the public health authorities against the disease Tuberculosis.