Brief History of the Campaign Against Tuberculosis in New York City

Brief History Of The Campaign Against Tuberculosis In New York City - is a work, which was published in 1908 and written by Hermann Michael Biggs. Hermann Michael Biggs was an American physician and public health pioneer who helped apply the science of bacteriology to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. From 1892 to 1901 he was pathologist and director of bacteriological laboratories, and then chief physician of the New York City Department of Health. Impressed by what Lillian Wald's public health nurses were able to achieve in reducing absenteeism from school due to infectious diseases that could be treated at home, Biggs, who was in charge of health in New York City, hired nine nurses in Manhattan - the first school nurses to be hired in any city in the USA. This led him to add public health nurses to the municipal tuberculosis control mechanism.