The War Against Tuberculosis: Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in Pennsylvania

by James E. Higgins

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in the coal regions hacked themselves to death from black lung disease, and pollution in the commonwealth's water killed tens of thousands more. In the wake of an alarming typhoid outbreak in Butler, the Pennsylvania legislature formed a modern state department of health. At its head was Samuel G. Dixon,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271099224
• ISBN13: 9780271099224
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"