{"id":619,"date":"2010-04-04T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=619"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:35:43","slug":"back-to-back-to-make-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-back to make a comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This used to be a long article about back to backs and tuberculosis. I shortened it because most of the TB in the UK arrives from other countries.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While it&#8217;s true that Victorian housing conditions and lack of ventilation exacerbated health problems, in the UK in the C21st the vast majority of tuberculosis is brought in from outside the country by people from developing countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These individuals account for nearly three-quarters of all tuberculosis notifications in the UK with an incidence that is 20 times higher than in UK-born individuals&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC3108102\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3108102\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>BCG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/aug\/31\/tb-vaccine-bcg-effective-for-twice-as-long-as-previously-thought-study\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/aug\/31\/tb-vaccine-bcg-effective-for-twice-as-long-as-previously-thought-study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>intimate clusters of tiny houses in narrow alleyways with some barefoot tousle-haired Ready Brek  ragamuffin like Mark Lester in Lionel Bart&#8217;s Oliver would warm the cockles of the hearts of would-be city dwellers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assael","category-housing-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30040,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/30040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}