Tuberculosis - The Great Cover Up.

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By : Dr Jayne L M Donegan, MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP

 

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Tuberculosis is a disease caused by infection of a susceptible person with the

tubercle bacillus. This bacillus is from the family, ‘Mycobacteria’.

Mycobacteria are very common and live all around us in tapwarer, grass, mud,

hay, rubber tubing and. so on. Most do not cause infection in humans. Those that

do need certain conditions: overcrowding, poor ventilation, dusty atmosphere,

poor and low protein diet, migration, grief.

 

Tuberculosis began to disappear from England in the 1850’s. The shambolic

growth of cities was taken in hand. Public health acts provided a basis for

improved sanitation, new building standards and slum clearance (3). Streets were

widened, sewers were walled in, the dead were buried outside of towns. Railways

were built bringing fruit and vegetables to urban centres. Ventilation of jails

and hospitals was improved. The increased use of glass in windows sounded

another death knell for tuberculosis. Mycobacteria are highly susceptible to

ultra violet radiation and transmission rarely occurs out-of-doors in daylight

(1)(4).

 

Mortality from tuberculosis fell as immigrants from the countryside became

accustomed to their new situation. Factory acts improved the lots of workers and

children. It still remained high among newer immigrants such as the Irish and

those from the Indian subcontinent today, by the very fact of their migration.

 

The tubercule bacillus was discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, a German

scientist. This virtually single handedly put an end to measures aimed at the

improvement of public welfare as a way of reducing disease. Doctors went rushing

in the direction of drugs, antisera and vaccines. It is a shame that we all

remember Louis Pasteur as the inventor of the ‘germ theory of disease’ but his

deathbed recantation: " The soil is everything; the germ is nothing " is less

widely publicised.

 

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