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PANDEMICS Report of Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Melbourne October 1915.
Best.-Nr. 29322Melbourne : Government printer 1915. Proforma document 110 x 210 mm headed 'Report of Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: To be forwarded by First Post' with manuscript entries made by Dr. P. B. Bennie Collins Street dated 6 October 1915 reporting a case of tuberculosis in a patient named Paul Fielder aged 45 years residing at 7 Bellevue Street Richmond an unemployed barman who had previously worked at the Melbourne Hotel Bourke Street who is exhibiting Stage 2 symptoms; verso with printed address panel 'The Town Clerk OR Shire Secretary Richmond in ms.'; the completed form was folded and mailed by the doctor to the Richmond Council where it was endorsed 'Entered 7-10-15'; a very good clean example. 'At the beginning of the 20th century TB was a major cause of death in Australia – ranking first among females and second among males.' NHMRC It is worthy of note that even at the height of the Spanish flu pandemic in Melbourne in 1919 the mortality rate from pulmonary tuberculosis - which had long been one of the leading causes of death in Australia and New Zealand see above - was still a very significant figure even when compared to the huge number of influenza victims. Today during the COVID-19 pandemic it tends to be an overlooked fact in First World countries that tuberculosis has been and continues to be a far more devastating infectious disease in Third World countries than the coronavirus: in 2019 alone according to the World Health Organization 1.5 million people died from TB worldwide out of the 10 million people who contracted the disease. This makes it approximately five times as deadly as COVID-19 - in the Third World. Â unknown
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