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| | Dr Noel Browne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | When Dr Browne, the former Minister for Health credited with the virtual eradication of tuberculosis from Ireland, died recently, many of the people who came to pay their respects to him at O' Flaherty's Funeral Home did so out of gratitude for the extra years he had given them. |
 | | One woman, in her 80s, said she dropped by to say goodbye to him on behalf of her deceased relations who always spoke so highly of the fearless psychiatrist whose own life was marked by struggle, crippling poverty and illness. |
 | | In an interview with this writer on TB, Dr Browne said it was difficult for this generation to appreciate the sense of desolation and suffering associated with the disease, which afflicted one in 10 families, wiped out whole communities and accounted for over 4,300 deaths nationally in 1942. |
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