One of the Commission of Government's chief ambitions upon taking office was to improve health care in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Cottage hospitals and health care during the commission of Government in Newfoundland which lasted from 1934-1949.

The Grenfell Mission provided some of the earliest permanent medical services in Labrador and northern Newfoundland.

Leading up to the Commission of Government, health-care organizations did much to promote public health and welfare in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Tuberculosis was one of the most common infectious diseases of the 20th century, and thousands of people became TB patients.

Tuberculosis (or TB) is a disease that humans have lived with and died from for thousands of years.