A Critical Study of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an English County Borough: Being an Investigation of the Cases Notified to the Local Authority during the Years 1912-1930

Grant, James (1933) A Critical Study of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an English County Borough: Being an Investigation of the Cases Notified to the Local Authority during the Years 1912-1930. MD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

No subject bristles with more problems than the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis, and indeed, each aspect of the disease repeats this feature, the more specialised the enquiry made. My intention, however, is to survey broadly the whole field in an attempt to throw light on the main factors which make its prevention difficult. I was somewhat fortunately placed as Assistant Tuberculosis Officer in a small English County Borough, Burton-on-Trent, where there was a compact urban community with little migrational change from year to year. Research was made into all the data available regarding notif1ed pulmonary tuberculosis from the beginning of notification in 1912 to the end of the year 1930. Personal knowledge and examination of many of the cases still surviving led me to think that the study of the problem in this Borough might be valuable. The compulsory overhaul of tuberculosis statistics, rendered necessary by the memorandum 37T of the Ministry of Health (1925) fell largely to me, and thus made much the work common ground with this project. That I am on ground which has been thoroughly ploughed before me, I am well aware. I take courage, however, from the present trend of medical research to rely on observation rather than on experiment, the Neo-Hippocratism, which is a school of thought somewhat different from a narrow specialism.

• Item Type: Thesis (MD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Medicine, Epidemiology
• Date of Award: 1933
• Depositing User: Enlighten Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:1933-79992
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2020 10:13
• Last Modified: 03 Mar 2020 10:13
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/79992