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MASS RADIOGRAPHY
The Organising Secretary of the South West London Mass X-Ray Service
has kindly furnished the following report on the activities of the Service
in Chelsea during 1961s =
During the year a Mobile Unit of the South West London Mass X-Ray
Service visited The Chelsea College of Technology in Manresa Road, where
513 students and staff were examined, and a visit was also made to the
College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, where 395 persons
were x-rayedo Two visits were made to x-ray staff of John Lewis Clearings
and Peter Jones Limited, and a Unit also went to x-ray staff at The Royal
Marsden Hospital, and the London Transport Executive, Power Station, (Lots
Road).
About two hundred men over 45 years of age who live and/or work in
Chelsea, are making use of the six-monthly service, which was started three
years ago, to provide regular chest x-ray examinations for men in that age
group, in an effort to detect more cases of lung cancer, while they are
still curableo In connection with this service a Mobile Unit comes twice
a year to the junction of King's Road and Manresa Road«
It was not possible to arrange for a public Mass X-Ray Centre to be
opened in the Borough this year, but many residents of Chelsea found it
convenient to attend the South West London Mass X-Ray Centre at Western
Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham, S.W.6. This Centre is open to everyone
over the age of fifteen (irrespective of where they work or live), on
Wednesday afternoons and evening between 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m., and 5 p.m.
7.00 p.m., and no appointments are needed for these public sessions.