Saving the Empire: The politics of immigrant tuberculosis in Canada

“Yet in every continent, under every climate, and among men of every race, there are communities where tuberculosis is either completely absent or of little consequence; in fact, the disease has been practically wiped out from a few localities where it was once prevalent. Clearly, then, its destructive power is not the inevitable expression of geographic, climatic or racial factors.” -René and Jean Dubos (1)