Abstract

From the beginning of the XX century, tuberculosis posed a serious sanitary problem for the province of Córdoba: its climate was praised by doctors, consequently an important amount of sick people traveled to its mountains and its capital city. During the 1930s, and although mortality rates had decreased, a group of physicians, graduated from Córdoba University, presented a plan to combat tuberculosis. Although this plan was never implemented, it shows the main ideas about the causes of the illness and how to fight against it. The perception of tuberculosis as a social illness, the need to isolate the sick, the distrust towards the State as being unable to carry out the fight against this disease, the need for an insertion beyond academic and hospital areas, and the emphasis to reinforce the fight in Córdoba were part of a speciality which was just beginning.