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Rankin Park street names record a corporate disaster

I grew up in the Newcastle suburb of Rankin Park. It was a new suburb when we moved into the new house that was built there for my parents, in De Guerry Avenue, in 1969. It was a pretty good place to grow up. I could walk to South Wallsend school, to Scouts and to soccer practice. Rankin Park adjoined a big area of bushland where my brother and I spent countless hours, walking and riding our bikes on trails that extended between the old Wallsend brickworks, Jesmond Park, the Hollywood depression settlement, the Skyline Drive-in…

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First patients at Rankin Park chest hospital, June 12, 1947.

TB, an old foe, half-forgotten but not gone

The recent appearance of two clusters of tuberculosis disease in Australia is a reminder that this deadly old foe has not been eradicated. Indeed, it is estimated that about a quarter of the world's population harbours the TB bacteria, with new variants emerging that are harder to treat. No widely effective vaccine is available. Growing up in the suburb of Rankin Park, Newcastle, NSW, I was aware that there was - a few kilometres through the bushland near my home - a "chest hospital". That's what my father called it, whenever we drove past. It was…

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