This one's about illness brought on by environmental hazards endured by migrant workers:
Tish Hinoja, "Something In The Rain".


And Greg Brown's song "The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" says "... Consumption's claimed his life ... ".


Then there's this:
"The preacher came by with a tear in his eye
And he said that his wife had the flu.
We told him he ought to give him a quart
Of that Good Old Mountain Dew."

Or this: [It's in the Book]
"Mrs. O'Malley down in the valley
Suffered from ulcers I understand.
She swallowed a cake of Grandma's Lye Soap,
's got the cleanest ulcers in the land."


And from "Found A Peanut" there's this:

"'pendicitis, 'pendicitus, 'pendicitus just now,
Just now I got 'pendicitus ...

Called the doctor, called the doctor, ...

Operation, operation ...

Died anyway, died anyway ... "