What is this book is about! -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: The new horizon -- Chapter 2: smallpox - A story with an end -- Chapter 3: City of stenches -- Chapter 4: Typhoid fever - almost a thing of the past -- Chapter 5: The diphtheria story -- Chapter 6:
Tuberculosis - the first hundred years -- Chapter 7: Epidemic influenza - a modern-day black death -- Chapter 8: Planning Australia's health -- Chapter 9: Poliomyelitis - a new menace -- Chapter 10: Time to take tuberculosis seriously -- Chapter 11: Changing patterns of infection -- Chapter 12: Heart disease -- Chapter 13: Cancer - the elusive enemy -- Chapter 14: The toll of the young - violent death -- Chapter 15: The power of poison.
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