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CodeDS/UK/2565
NameBritish Student Tuberculosis Foundation; 1952-1965; British student charity
Dates1952-1965
BiographyThe British Student Tuberculosis Foundation was established in 1952 as an organization to provide educational services for students suffering from that disease. Inr 1965 it was decided that the British Student Tuberculosis Foundation should be voluntarily wound up and that its assets should be transferred to the British Student Health Association to further the association's work for sick students. This decision reflects the remarkable change which has taken place in the incidence and treatment of tuberculosis since
During the period 1952-64 over 500 students passed through the two units maintained by the Foundation.

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