ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the strategies that aimed at shaping the relations between the sick and the healthy served to regulate urban society in general. It also discusses the extent to which anti-tuberculosis campaigns were products and prisoners of the interests of the medical profession. The chapter explains about the Gothenburg health authorities that were clearly determined to concentrate their attention on unhygienic flats, attics and cellar dwellings. In examining the role which housing conditions played in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, public health experts in Gothenburg invoked ideas of soil' and seed'. The Birmingham public health authorities, like their counterparts in Gothenburg, were convinced that housing conditions affected the incidence of tuberculosis. The Gothenburg health authorities also believed in the benefits of extensive hospital provision. The main focus of the Birmingham antituberculosis strategy was sanatoria, where incipient cases of tuberculosis were fortified by various therapies and reformed by health education and orderly, regulated sanatorium life.
