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Part of Craig David’s trip to South Africa was to have an opportunity of meeting with a cross section of leaders in the fight against tuberculosis. Here Craig David poses for a photo with the Deputy Minister for Health in South Africa, the Right Honourable Dr Molefi Sefularo and local TB ambassadors in South Africa. The result was a resounding ‘yes’ to working
together to achieve common goals in the fight against tuberculosis.
The last Rhode Island vampire, Mercy Brown:
She was, like her mother, sister and brother, a victim of tuberculosis. In March of 1892, two months after Mercy had died, a Doctor Metcalf tried to calm the fears of a few folks in Exeter who believed Mercy's brother, Edwin, was being taken by a vampire spirit. In order to find out which one of the deceased Brown women contained the vaporous life-sucker, Mercy's mother (Mary Eliza) and sister (Mary Olive) were dug up. Their bodies showed advanced states of decay, so the vampire hunters were sure it could not be either of them. Mercy's body was being kept in the graveyard's crypt for burial in the spring when the ground thawed, so suspicion next fell on her mortal remains. After opening the crypt, the small crowd discovered her body in an unspoiled condition and her hair and fingernails had also grown. The superstitious pack were sure that they had found their vampire. Mercy's heart was cut out, burned and the ashes were given to Edwin as the cure for the vampire's curse. Edwin Brown died two months later. A friend of Bram Stoker sent him a clipping of the local news paper report on this spooky event and it is believed Stoker took some inspiration from it for his classic book, Dracula.
Leasowe Hospital or The Leasowe Sanatorium For Crippled Children and Hospital for Tuberculosis, to give its full and original name, later became known as the Liverpool Open-Air Hospital, Leasowe, and finally Leasowe Hospital. To tell the story of the hospital, one name above all stands out and that is Margaret Beavan (born 1877, died 1931). She was the driving force, admired by all, she was known affectionately as the 'Little Mother of Liverpool', also not quite as complimentary – the 'Mighty Atom' and 'Clever Beggar'. The first mention of a Sanatorium for children with Tuberculosis occurred on 16 December 1911.
Slowly Leasowe Hospital changed from being principally a children's T.B. hospital to one for dealing with burns and skin grafts, and then arthritis until its closure in 1979. Another name closely associated with 'Leasowe'; amongst others, is that of (the late) Dr T.R. Littler, Consultant Rheumatologist, who was devoted to Leasowe. Leasowe Hospital was eventually bought by the Wirral Christian Centre in 1981 and was used later as a retirement home and handicap centre. After failing to make that facility work the buildings were eventually repossessed then later demolished around 2002–03. Luxury flats and houses have since been built on the site.
These are the original technical drawings created by T W Haigh in october 1913.
Permissions and medical form accompanying the file HOSP/STAN/07/01/02/2558, a patient at Stannington Sanatorium being treated for Tuberculous cervical adenitis after the introduction of antibiotics at the sanatorium. Read more about this file on the album description.
Date: 1952.
This image is part of our Stannington Sanatorium Flickr collection of albums of patient files, as part of our Stannington Sanatorium project. They are from our archive collections at Northumberland Archives. Feel free to share them within the spirit of the Commons. If you have any enquiries or would like copies please contact collections@woodhorn.org.uk for more information.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major opportunistic infection among adults and children with HIV in poor countries.
Testing for TB in the lungs can be done with a sputum test. Small children may not be able to produce a sample by this method. A gastric test is more invasive and it may also be difficult to obtain a specimen via this method.
Extra-pulmonary TB is very difficult to diagnose and requires a variety of tests by trained experts.
Copyright: Caritas/Michelle Hough
Patient history summary accompanying the file HOSP/STAN/07/01/02/2558, a patient at Stannington Sanatorium being treated for Tuberculous cervical adenitis after the introduction of antibiotics at the sanatorium. Read more about this file on the album description.
Date: 1952.
This image is part of our Stannington Sanatorium Flickr collection of albums of patient files, as part of our Stannington Sanatorium project. They are from our archive collections at Northumberland Archives. Feel free to share them within the spirit of the Commons. If you have any enquiries or would like copies please contact collections@woodhorn.org.uk for more information.
Ilustración infográfica para la revista Bienestar de Sanitas sobre un articulo de enfermedades respiratorias Edc. 122
1912: The City of Buffalo's Tuberculosis Hospital opens. Located on land in Perrysburg, New York donated by Buffalo Mayor James Nobel Adam, designed in 1909 by the prominent architect John Hopper Coxhead .
An ever-cheerful tuberculosis patient in a London Area Isolation Hospital Ward circa the early 1950s . Although the seldom complaining man was successfully treated by isolation ward hospitalisation , he later became incapacitated and suffered increasingly through lung damage initially caused by the tuberculosis .
He died whilst watching the England versus Germany World Cup Final in 1966 .
North Carolina State Board of Health brochure about tuberculosis.
In 1914, tuberculosis killed more people in North Carolina than any other disease. And, at the time, there was no medicine that could cure it.
Date: 1914
CFM 2003.063.0050
Gift of William S. King Jr.
"8-year-old Devi Bibi has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis after a sputum test performed by doctors from Calcutta Rescue, who set up a clinic near her village in rural Bengal. Around 170 patients were detected here last year. Without these clinics they would go undetected and the disease would spread to the greater population. The clinics play a vital role in controlling the disease. Government programmes fighting against the spread of TB have thus far proved ineffective and the efforts of NGOs like Calcutta Rescue are a small drop in the ocean, but the fight presses on."
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Hong Kong - Built in 1950 using War Memorial funds to address the increase in lung disease during and after WWII.
A 75 y/o male without chief complaint. No fever, cough, sputum, and dyspnea noted. It should be far advanced, and active type was suspected.
(agreed by the pt)