This month we’ve been focussing on the epidemic disease tuberculosis or T.B., once known as ‘consumption’. We highlight the records of hospitals and sanatoriums, the papers of medical professionals, campaigners and organisations, and victims of the disease; illustrated with a range of photographs from Lothian Health Services Archive, The Women’s Library, the People’s History Museum, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Photo: Illuminated tram-car advertising, 1957, part of Glasgow Corporation’s tuberculosis campaign. Image Wellcome Library, London and copyright © Wellcome Trust, reproduced under Creative Commons licence.