Open AccessThe tuberculosis situation in Portugal : a historical perspective to 1994
Author(s) -
Mario Antunes,
A Fonseca-Antunes
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
euro surveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.01.03.00199-en
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , perspective (graphical) , queen (butterfly) , medicine , family medicine , geography , pathology , art , hymenoptera , botany , visual arts , biology
Portugal built its first tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Funchal, Madeira, in 1862. In 1899, Queen Amelia proposed and sponsored a private foundation, with clinics, hospitals, sanatoriums and preventoria, where relatives and other contacts of TB patients we