South Australia - Health
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- Consumption
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Consumption
Also see:
Adelaide - Public Health
Place Names - Angorichina.
Further information is in Geoffrey H. Manning's A Colonial Experience
"A New Remedy for Consumption" is in the Register,
15 October 1857, page 2e.
Information on the disease is in the Observer,
15 March 1879, page 10f.
"Facts About Consumption" is in the Advertiser,
7 May 1887, page 6g; also see
10 May 1890, page 4f.
Dr Koch's cure is discussed in the Advertiser,
27 December 1890, page 5b,
7 January 1891, page 5g,
17, 23 and 26 February 1891, pages 6b, 4d and 5g,
6 and 18 March 1891, pages 6b and 5e.
"Deaths from Consumption" is in the Register,
7 April 1894, page 4f.
"The Tubercle Bacillus" is in the Advertiser,
5 December 1894, page 4f.
An editorial on tuberculosis appears on
4 June 1895, page 4f.
"Consumption and Butter" is in the Advertiser,
22 August 1895, page 6c.
"Tuberculosis and the Public Health" is in the Register,
10 March 1896, page 4f,
Advertiser,
10 and 12 September 1898, pages 5a and 6e,
"Consumption and Cows" on
18 November 1897, page 4e.
"Consumption - The Great Manslayer" is in the Register,
24 February 1898, page 4e.
"Cruel Consumption" is in the Register,
2 and 10 September 1898, pages 4c and 9a.
"Tuberculous Meat" is in the Advertiser,
22 and 28 November 1898, pages 4f and 6f,
"Tuberculosis and Dairy Cattle" on
8 June 1899, page 4g.
"Consumption and Its Prevention" is in the Register,
31 January 1899, pages 4d-7c,
"Consumption and Meat Inspection" on
17 February 1899, page 4e,
"The Cure of Consumption" is in the Register,
22 March 1899, page 4f,
8 July 1899, pages 6e-10a.
"Consumption and Its Treatment" is in the Observer,
15 July 1899, page 42e,
"Consumption in SA" on
26 August 1899, page 41a.
"Tuberculosis - Its Prevention and Cure" is in the Advertiser,
8 July 1899, page 10b; also see
8 May 1901, page 8d,
2 August 1901, pages 4b-6a,
19 September 1901, page 4d.
"Fighting Consumption" is in the Advertiser,
15 February 1902, page 6c,
"Consumption and Its Cure" on
25 November 1902, page 4c.
"The Cure of Consumption" is in the Register,
22 March 1899, page 4f; also see
23 June 1899, page 6i,
8 July 1899, pages 4e-10a,
5 and 21 August 1899, pages 4h and 4f,
24 and 27 July 1901, pages 4e and 4f,
14 and 18 March 1902, pages 4d and 6a,
27 August 1903, page 4c,
30 November 1904, page 8e.
"The White Death" is in the Advertiser,
15 April 1903, page 4d; also see
27 April 1903, page 8a,
"The Crusade Against Tuberculosis" on
21, 22 and 27 May 1903, pages 4b, 6c and 4d,
8 June 1903, page 4c.
"Consumption - The Disease in This State" is in the Express,
24 April 1903, page 4d.
"A Consumptive Home - Where Should It Be?" is in the Register,
6 and 13 June 1903, pages 8e and 8f.
"The White Plague - Alleged Cure" is in the Advertiser,
22 August 1904, page 6a,
"The Consumption Report" on
27 August 1904, page 6d,
"The White Plague" on
26 and 29 November 1904, pages 8b and 4c.
"A Consumptive Home - Where Should it Be" is in the Register,
6, 11, 12, 13 and 18 June 1903, pages 8e, 7g, 6g, 8f and 9b,
Advertiser,
7 and 9 March 1904, pages 4d and 4d-7c,
14, 25 and 29 April 1904, pages 4d, 4d and 5h,
2 May 1904, pages 4d-5f.
Apart from bowel infection in infants, consumption (tuberculosis) killed more people in the early days of South Australia than any other cause and, as I write in 1901, it continues to be an insidious killer. In early colonial days the disease was accepted as a part of daily life and few families were lucky enough to avoid it.
There was no cure and the usual medical advice was to move to a warm, dry climate and undertake a nutritious, nourishing diet and complete rest. By 1890 the 'white plague' was at its zenith and was killing South Australians at the rate of 400 a year.
A cure for consumption is in the Register,
30 March 1905, page 6c:
Brandy and salt is the only sure cure for consumption and to prevent it make a pickle of the best brandy and common salt. Put the salt and brandy [in a container] and shake it until it will take no more salt... For adults one tablespoonful of the pickle every morning, fasting and lying down for ten minutes before taking anything else.
(The letter also contains alleged cures for cancer and appendicitis; also see Register, 5 June 1914, page 8f.)
"Treatment of Consumptives" is in the Advertiser,
5 September 1905, page 11d,
30 July 1906, page 4c,
"Consumptives in South Australia" on
21 March 1907, page 6d.
"Death in the Milk Pail" is in the Advertiser,
4 February 1907, page 6d,
"Treatment of Consumptives" on
14 July 1908, page 6d.
"Fighting the White Plague" is in the Register on
14 July 1908, pages 6b-10a; also see
16, 29 and 31 July 1909, pages 6c, 9f and 6f,
7 and 12 August 1909, pages 6c and 9b-c,
18 September 1909, page 12e,
Advertiser,
1 October 1910, page 12d,
Register,
1, 3 and 27 October 1910, pages 5c, 6d and 6f,
10 May 1911, page 4c,
14 and 24 June 1911, pages 8f and 12e.
Also see Register,
10 and 13 May 1911, pages 4c and 5h,
14 and 24 June 1911, pages 8f and 12e,
25 August 1911, page 4i,
12 June 1912, page 6d,
9 September 1912, page 8a,
21 and 26 October 1912, pages 6d and 16a,
11 January 1913, page 14f,
21 February 1913, page 10c,
3 March 1913, page 10c,
2 August 1913, page 18a.
"Martyred Wives" is the subject of editorial comment in the Advertiser,
4 December 1911, page 8c.
"The Cure for Consumption" is in the Advertiser,
17 February 1913, page 14e.
"Alcohol and Consumption" is in the Register,
11 July 1914, page 10f; also see
17 April 1916, page 4c.
"Fighting the White Plague" is in the Register,
3 January 1917, page 6c.
"A Northern Sanatorium" is in the Register,
25, 27, 28 and 30 June 1917, pages 3g, 8f, 6h and 12b,
3, 5, 7 and 10 July 1917, pages 5d, 5e, 7e-9e and 7e,
8 August 1917, page 6f, 27 July 1918, page 5g.
Also see Place Names - Angorichina.
"The White Scourge" is in the Advertiser,
7 and 13 June 1921, pages 6f and 6f.
"Combating Consumption" is in the Register,
27 June 1918, page 4c,
13 November 1919, page 6e,
"Preventing Consumption" on
8 January 1921, page 6e,
"Consumption - How to Fight It" in the Advertiser,
11 October 1922, page 10g.
"Consumption is Curable" is in the Register,
26 January 1920, page 9g.
Articles on "Health Week" are in the Advertiser,
11 October 1922, page 11b.
"Consumption and Common Sense" is in the Register,
20 and 21 August 1923, pages 6d and 13b,
"The White Plague" on
16 and 26 April 1924, pages 8g and 8d,
26 November 1925, page 8e.
"Cells of Death in the City - North Terrace Consumptive Home" is in The News,
21, 24 and 26 November 1924, pages 11a, 5e and 1c.
"Children of Tubercular Parents" is in the Advertiser,
25 March 1926, page 14e.
"Fight Against Tuberculosis" is in The Mail,
13 August 1927, page 1f.
Information on the Consumptive Home at the Adelaide Hospital is in The News,
23 August 1927, page 8f.
"Mystery Man of T.B. Research" is in the Advertiser,
4 February 1932, page 8g.
A proposed site for a TB clinic is discussed in the Advertiser,
13 October 1933, page 20f,
"White Plague in This State" on
30 May 1934, page 14h.
"Eradication of TB" is in the Advertiser,
25 January 1935, page 20h,
"Prevention of Tuberculosis" on
7 July 1936, page 16h.
"Australia Can Banish TB" is in the Advertiser,
25 and 26 August 1937, pages 23f and 16d.
