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251125P - TB MORTALITY IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND and the US

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Presentation at the ‘Hail International Conference on Scientific Research and Innovation on the Future of Health Care’ held on 25 November 2025. By: Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard), Professor of Epidemiology and Bioethics


CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

  • Tuberculosis was a leading cause of death in Victorian England
  • Poor living conditions:  dense, unsanitary, poor ventilation, poor water supplies
  • Malnutrition
  • Lack of an effective antibiotic


TUBERCULOSIS IN THE UK 1750-1950: 


TUBERCULOSIS IN THE US 1900-2012:

Crude death rates for tuberculosis in the United States, 1900-2014. Note that except for the period during World War I, rates of death by tuberculosis in the United States were falling long before the advent of antibiotic treatments. Aggressive policies to combat bovine tuberculosis, state-mandated sanatoria, and improvements in housing all contributed to the decline. The decline of tuberculosis in the United States is similar to that in England and Wales.  


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