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Was any of Jack The Rippers victims consumptive?

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Consumption, or tuberculosis as it is now called, was rampant in London's impoverished east end. Ripper victim Annie Chapman, upon autopsy, was discovered to have tuberculosis and possibly phlueresy.

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