Tuberculosis in Mexicans: Learning From the Past to Provide Lessons for the Present

Abstract

BENJAMIN GOLDBERG, A dedicated physician working at the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Department of Pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, was a pioneer in introducing early accounts of the public health challenges imposed by a new racial “type”: Mexicans. His 1929 Journal article, excerpted here, was originally read before the American Public Health Association's Vital Statistics Section at the association's 57th annual meeting, held in Chicago, Illinois, on October 18, 1928.