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How Glasgow's 1957 tuberculosis screening programme could help countries today
Visitors arriving in Glasgow, UK, today are met with a city that's undergone massive regeneration, from the colourfully illuminated exterior of the Hydro music venue on the old dockside along the River Clyde, to the stratified medicine cluster that is growing up around the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, one of the largest facilities in Europe. Wind the clock back to the 1950s, and visitors were faced with a city shrouded in smog from factories and coal fires, full of many people living in substandard, overcrowded housing, and suffering from poor nutrition, with World War 2 rationing only ending in 1954.