William Budd Health Centre

The William Budd Health Centre

William Budd

"The idea that phthisis is a self-propagated zymotic disease, and that all the leading phenomena of its distribution may be explained by supposing that it is disseminated through society by specific germs contained in the tuberculous matter cast off by persons already suffering from the disease, first came to my mind, unbidden, so to speak, while I was walking on the Observatory Hill at Clifton...

Bristol's New Health Centre

One feature of the National Health Service Act, 1946, to receive almost unanimous approval from the medical profession, was the power given to local authorises to provide, equip and maintain health centres. So far no new health centre, Wit specifically for the purpose has been opened, and the health centre at Leinster Avenue which will come into operation this month (April 1952) will be the fir...

Health Services Management Centre

The Health Centre Community.

The greatest burden of malaria is borne by the children of rural sub-Saharan Africa. Each year nearly 90% of all malaria-related deaths occur in these remote areas, far from lifesaving medical care. In the Bugoye sub-county of rural Western Uganda, most families subsist on small plots of staple crops carved into the hillsides. Lacking transportation, worried parents carry their sick children do...