1. The tubercule bacillus and the natural history of Tuberculosis -- 2. Tuberculosis in Australia: part 1 -- 3. Tuberculosis in Australia: part 2 -- 4. Tuberculosis among aborigines -- 5. Tuberculosis in New Zealand -- 6. Tuberculosis and Papua New Guinea: the Australian connection -- 7. Mycobateriology in Australia -- 8. Evolution of treatment -- 9. The rise and fall of surgery in pulmonary tuberculosis in Australia and New Zealand -- 10. The chemotherapy revolution of the 1950s -- 11. The evolution of the national tuberculosis program -- 12. Migration of consumptives to Australia
Summary
Includes chapter on tuberculosis among Aborigines. Discusses: the impact since European occupation on the spread of the disease; tuberculosis in the Northern Territory; shows map of communities in the Northern Territory visited by X-ray caravans in 1959; Tuberculosis in Far North Queensland
Analysis
Australia overseas comparisons
Health care
History
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Tuberculosis
Notes
Library's copy signed by Author
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-262) and index