ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the demographic pressures to which health policy was subject in Birmingham and Gothenburg, examines spatial arrangements in these cities, sheds light on housing conditions and work opportunities, and analyses family patterns and ideals. It also discusses the extent to which anti-tuberculosis campaigns served to regulate urban life in general and to legitimize municipal intervention or non-intervention in the homes and in the housing market and the medical market. The chapter examines the diverse socio-economic conditions within these cities, concentrating especially on the aspects which were likely to influence how health problems were understood and defined. It also explores how different group's middle-class women and working-class women and men challenged the authorities' views or, perhaps more importantly, how these groups seized on contradictions in health policy to change things and to further causes they supported.
