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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 08 August 17 21:07 BST (UK) »
Yes, my eldest son tested positive, our G,P explained he would have come in contact with it probably in untreated milk, but because he was healthy and living in good conditions and with a good diet he had fought it off.He has never been troubled
We were abroad at the time and many people believed that treated milk had no nourishment!  ::)
Got their milk straight from the cows .
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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 12:22 BST (UK) »
In 1848 my 4xgreat gran died of consumption. Her husband died in December 1854 aged 39 of "phthisis, 6 years". So I reckon he caught it off his wife.

I often wondered if you could catch TB off a baby but I doubt it.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 12:36 BST (UK) »

I also did not need BCG

My father had TB at a young adult age.
60% of one lung removed, 20% of the other.
[ Thoracotomy, from the shoulder blades, terrible scars ]
Story goes that the hospital used "tennis balls", within his chest,  to keep relevant "bits" where they should be.
 
Lived until his 90th year.

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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 15:15 BST (UK) »
I have remembered that word for bleeding from the mouth but originating in the lungs when T.B is present- Haemopthysis  or   Haemoptysis.
 Viktoria.
Haemoptysis is coughing up blood - not only from TB. Also cancer, sometimes even severe bronchitis.
Haematemesis is vomiting blood.

TB was usually spread by 'droplet infection' which means by afflicted persons coughing, spitting, etc  near you.  So of course it could be caught from a baby, though one would usually expect it to be the other way round - the baby catches it from the family.

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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 17:49 BST (UK) »
There used to be public notices "No spitting".
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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 19:38 BST (UK) »
Actually my aunt was in hospital for months with TB around 1950.  She had almost fully recovered and was ready to go home when she suddenly came down with meningitis and died.  She was only 18 - I have the diary she wrote while in hospital.
SIMPSON, SIMSON, COPPING, HAWKS, HILLS, MARSHALL: Essex
SINCLAIR/SINKLER: Lancashire & Cheshire
SHINGLER: Shropshire
DAVIES: Denbighshire
LORD: Middlesex
SISSON: Cumbria
GOULDRUP/GOLDUP: Kent
NICHOLSON: Durham
LAWTON: Bedfordshire
WILLSON: Yorkshire
LUNDY: Devon
PARK, FLEMING, DARLING, KENNEDY: Lanarkshire
McCARTY: Ireland

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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 10 August 17 04:55 BST (UK) »
If you do a search on Phthisis on the Internet Archive (select "Search full text of books" under the search bar), you'll get thousands of hits:

https://archive.org/index.php

In the margin on the left of the results page, you'll see it's broken down into categories, which include patient, disease, cases and public health. Clicking on those might help narrow it down.

Take a look at what comes up. There must be another search term that would help narrow down the results so you get more of what you're looking for (hopefully).

You could also search on tuberculosis and see if anything different comes up.

Happy hunting!

Regards,
Josephine

Wow great resource - thanks Josephine!
SIMPSON, SIMSON, COPPING, HAWKS, HILLS, MARSHALL: Essex
SINCLAIR/SINKLER: Lancashire & Cheshire
SHINGLER: Shropshire
DAVIES: Denbighshire
LORD: Middlesex
SISSON: Cumbria
GOULDRUP/GOLDUP: Kent
NICHOLSON: Durham
LAWTON: Bedfordshire
WILLSON: Yorkshire
LUNDY: Devon
PARK, FLEMING, DARLING, KENNEDY: Lanarkshire
McCARTY: Ireland

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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 10 August 17 09:29 BST (UK) »
I often wondered if you could catch TB off a baby but I doubt it.

I should think that would be quite likely, as TB is easily spread by coughing, which a baby has no sense of avoiding.  I remember a slogan posted in buses in the 1950s - "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases", TB being one of them.

I also seem to recall that farm workers often grew up with immunity because of the environment they worked in.
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Re: Tuberculosis in 1870
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 10 August 17 14:03 BST (UK) »
You're welcome, Kelownagirl Kelownagurl!

Regards,
Josephine

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