A health librarian watching television: tuberculosis

I watched some of an interview with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who wrote Hancock ' s Half Hour, a 1960s comedy radio and television show which my Dad was a fan of, and Steptoe and Son, a 1970s television show which he definitely was not!Both writers had been in a sanatorium, with TB, at the age of 18 or so, so I am guessing in the 1940s or 1950s - that was how they had met.There were no antibiotics, so no treatment except bed rest.   The sanatorium where they were had a radio station, and its own newsletter.  The patients undertook work for outside organisations.I ' ve looked in PubMed to see what literature there is.  There isthis article by Raymond Hurt in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, reproducing a diary kept by a patient in the 1940s, including accounts of pre-streptomycin treatments.I did also findthis study of admissions to a children ' s sanatorium between 1936 and 1954, in Stannington (not the one near where I live but one in Northumberland, England).  Other articles in that same supplement are about tuberculosis in older historical periods.I also foundthis account in Hansard, from 1950.  Tuberculosis, of course, is stilla global health issue, and is anotifiable disease in the UK.
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