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Temperature charts accompanying the file HOSP/STAN/07/01/02/2654, a patient at Stannington Sanatorium being treated for Tuberculosis of the left humerus after the introduction of antibiotics at the sanatorium. Read more about this file on the album description.
Date: 1952 -1954.
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.
San Francisco has the highest rate of tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S., with recurrent outbreaks among the homeless and marginally housed, according to the most recent study on homelessness and TB by Harvard Medical School. Additionally, the Tenderloin has the highest rates of TB in San Francisco. To address this health care crisis, St. Anthony’s will offer free tuberculosis screening on Wednesday August 13th, 2008, as a part of National Health Care for the Homeless Day. According to findings released at last week’s International AIDS Society conference in Mexico City, TB is one of the leading causes of AIDS mortality. In the last two weeks both the World Heath Organization and Journal of the American Medical Association have urged expanded screening for communities in which HIV and TB intersect. Screening for the deadly airborne bacteria is also critical for San Francisco homeless, as all San Francisco city shelter clients must provide current TB test documentation to stay in city run shelters.
“The highest rates of TB are found in the Tenderloin. Although we test all of our scheduled patients for TB, this additional outreach for screening will help bring more people into the folds of healthcare and treatment, which is good for everyone. The more people we can test, the more people we can get treated,” noted St. Anthony Free Clinic Medical Director, Dr. Ana Valdes.
Photo by Michael Conti
This image shows tuberculosis of the spine, evident by the curvature to the spine.
The image is part of a larger collection of radiographs held by Northumberland Archives being digitised as part of the Stannington Sanatorium Project.
Catalogue Reference: HOSP-STAN-07-01-02-1148-01
This image is from the collections of Northumberland Archives. Feel free to share it in the spirit of the Commons.
Bacteriological report accompanying the file HOSP/STAN/07/01/02/2654, a patient at Stannington Sanatorium being treated for Tuberculosis of the left humerus after the introduction of antibiotics at the sanatorium. Read more about this file on the album description.
Date: 1952 -1954.
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.
One of the coldest explores I have ever been part of.
This hospital started as sanitarium for tuberculosis, the wide-spread lung disease of the day. Later, after TB had been all but eradicated, they opened their doors to all ailments of the chest.
Back in March of this year, CEA Myanmar completed the delivery and installation of five portable digital X-Ray machines. These machines are helping in the early detection of tuberculosis and are vital to remote communities throughout Myanmar. Sittwe, the capital of the Rakhine State has many refugee camps and a local prison which have seen an increased rate of early detection due to the new equipment and trained operators, resulting in many lives being saved.
Now six months on CEA Myanmar in conjunction with UNOPS – 3MDG, and American Procurement Service (APSCO) are continuing to support the fight against the disease in Myanmar. A further six digital X-Ray units were recently imported by CEA to be put into service in five different states throughout Myanmar and the capital Nay Pyi Taw. For all six installation locations, CEA Myanmar provided Customs Clearance, Transportation, Installation and operator training for the doctors and radiographers.
Myanmar is currently in the height of the rain season causing the roads, bridges, and highways to be frequently flooded, however, such is CEA’s experience in these conditions that all delays and detours were kept to a minimum resulting in the efficient transportation of all six X-Ray machines. The mobility of each machine is particularly advantageous enabling the teams to travel daily to surrounding townships across a greater area to detect, treat and follow-up on TB cases in the most remote areas of Myanmar.
Once again CEA Myanmar is immensely proud to be involved in such a worthwhile project that will result in the improved health of the people of Myanmar.
CEA Provided:
Customs Clearance Airfreight – Myanmar
Transportation Airport – Yangon Warehouse
Transportation – Nay Pyi Taw, Monywa, Loikaw, Sittwe, Kengtong and Lashio
Installation
Training
The fortress of Terezín was constructed between the years 1780 and 1790 by the orders of the Austrian emperor Joseph II in the north-west region of Bohemia. It was designed to be a component of a projected but never fully realized fort system of the monarchy, another piece being the fort of Josefov. Terezín took its name from the mother of the emperor, Maria Theresa of Austria who reigned as empress of Austria in her own right from 1740–1780. By the end of the 18th century, the facility was obsolete as a fort; in the 19th century, the fort was used to accommodate military and political prisoners.
From 1914 till 1918 it housed one of its most famous prisoners: Gavrilo Princip. Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife on June 28, 1914, which led to the outbreak of the First World War. Princip died in cell number 1 from tuberculosis on April 28, 1918.
On June 10, 1940, the Gestapo took control of Terezín and set up the prison in the Small Fortress (kleine Festung), see below. By November 24, 1941, the Main Fortress (große Festung, i.e. the walled town of Theresienstadt) was turned into a ghetto. To outsiders, it was presented by the Nazis as a model Jewish settlement, but in reality it was a concentration camp 'where over 33 000 inmates died as a result of hunger, sickness, or the sadistic treatment meted out by their captors'. Theresienstadt was also used as a transit camp for European Jews en route to Auschwitz. 'Although some survivors claim the population reached 75,000, official records place the highest figure on September 18, 1942, at 58,491 in Kasernes (barracks) designed to accommodate 7000 combat troups.
Excerpt from Wiki.
Bacteriological report accompanying the file HOSP/STAN/07/01/02/2654, a patient at Stannington Sanatorium being treated for Tuberculosis of the left humerus after the introduction of antibiotics at the sanatorium. Read more about this file on the album description.
Date: 1952 -1954.
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.
Suivez ces conseils, vous vivrez longtemps
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose (France)
Rockefeller Foundation.
Publication:
Paris : Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose : Fondation Rockefeller, [19--?]
Language(s):
French
Subject(s):
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- prevention & control
Health Promotion
Child
Genre(s):
Posters
Abstract:
Beige poster with brown and blue lettering, with the main title: “Follow these recommendations, and you will live for a long time.” The poster is illustrated with eight color drawings that demonstrate the recommendations to prevent the spread of tuberculosis that appear below each of the images. These are CLOCKWISE from the top left: 1) Be outside as often as you can; 2) Sleep with the window opened; 3) Don't put anything in your mouth that may contain the saliva of others; 4) Brush your teeth before going to bed; 5) Sit up straight at school; 6) Take a bath at least once a week; 7) Wash your hands before sitting down to supper; 8) Don't spit on the ground. The addresses of Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose and Fondation Rockefeller appear at the bottom
Provenance:
Purchased; July 1999.
NLM Image ID:
C01522
Permanent Link:
Pretty aged and well doodled in, this tiny health pamphlet from the 40's illustrating how tuberculosis is spread.
Full text reads:
THis is Mr TB Germ. He'd love to catch you with your RESISTANCE down so he can give you TUBERCULOSIS.
He may have been loafing in your body for a long time waiting for his CHANCE.
HOWEVER...he wasn't there when you were born. Oh, no! He came...
from SOMEONE who had tuberculosis! Maybe a relative, waitress, fellow worker or just anybody!
A sick person sneezed or COUGHED him up and....
he got into your LUNGS. Where it's DARK-WARM-MOIST. Just what he likes!
BUT IF...you had STRONG RESISTANCE your body fought back and BUILT A WALL around him like this...
and then he could do no harm. In that case you did NOT develop serious tuberculosis and you may NEVER have it. BUT...
You have NO LIFETIME GUARANTEE. IF you live or work with somebody who has active tuberculosis MORE GERMS will enter your body. Or if your resistance gets low FOR LACK OF
Sleep and rest
Nourishing Food
Good care
OR BECAUSE OF
Illness
Fatigue
Worry
Poor Health Habits
Dissipation
That WALL may break down! Then MR. TB GERM can escape and rear a BIG FAMILY and...
cause a CAVITY in your LUNG and you do not know it for you feel fine. BUT if left untreated the CAVITY gets larger and LARGER
SO...it is better to be SAFE than SORRY. Have your Tuberculin test or Chest X-Ray NOW
AND HELP KNOCK OUT MR. TB GERM!
This image shows an individual suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, being treated with a partial artificial pneumothorax of the left lung (collapse of the lung). This can be seen by the extremely clear condition of the lower left lung as only air is present.
Infiltration of the tuberculosis infection can also be seen in the right lung, mostly in the mid-zone with some evidence of calcification.
The image is part of a larger collection of radiographs held by Northumberland Archives being digitised as part of the Stannington Sanatorium Project.
Catalogue Reference: HOSP-STAN-07-01-02-1262-01
This image is from the collections of Northumberland Archives. Feel free to share it in the spirit of the Commons.
This image demonstrates a case of Non-TB, but an alternative pulmonary infection. The case notes associated with the radiograph indicate the patient previously suffered from infection of the tracheo-bronchial glands but that it was inactive at the time of radiographing.
The image is part of a larger collection of radiographs held by Northumberland Archives being digitised as part of the Stannington Sanatorium Project.
Catalogue Reference: HOSP-STAN-07-01-02-0004-03
This image is from the collections of Northuberland Archives, please feel free to share it.
Altamente infecciosa y más letal que el sida. La tuberculosis causa una cifra superior a tres millones de muertes cada año y un tercio de la población mundial es portadora de la bacteria. Xavier Carpena, estudiante posdoctoral del laboratorio de Biología Estructural de los Agregados Macromoleculares del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Barcelona, explica de qué modo es importante conocer la estructura y el funcionamiento de las proteínas para elaborar fármacos que actúen con efectividad contra esta enfermedad.