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General practitioners in the Area have been fully informed of
the working of the scheme and are notified of the resultsof
mantoux testing and informed when the child is vaccinated.
The campaign is carried out by a team consisting of a doctor.,
school nurse and a clerk. The doctors concerned have been
trained in the technique of mantoux testing and vaccination with
the co-operation of Dr. McQuiston and Dr. Butterworth of the
Tottenham and Hornsey Chest Clinics respectively. The Chest
Physicians have throughout been consulted and have shown the
utmost consideration and co-operation.
Mass X-ray in Tottenham

Cases of Tuberculosis in Schools
During the year a number of school children were notified as
cases of tuberculosis and two school teachers were in addition so
notified These cases were discussed with the appropriate chest
physicians and where no source of infection was known or discovered
in the home, epidemiological investigations were carried
out at the school. Details of these cases are given below
(i) A secondary grammar school in Hornsey
A senior pupil at a girls grammar school in Hornsey was found
to have pulmonary tuberculosis. The girl had worked for a time
as a pupil-teacher at a primary school.
A 'screening' patch test was performed on all children whose
parents gave consent at both schools; those children found positive
were given a further test. 302 children at the grammar
school and 180 at the primary school were so tested. As a result
of these procedures 23 of the girls at the grammar school were
found to require X-ray0 Each was chest X-rayed and nothing