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MASS RADIOGRAPHY
The Organising Secretary of the South West London Mass X-Ray
Service has kindly supplied the following report on the activities of
the Service in Chelsea during 1964:-
Mobile Mass X-Ray Units of the South West London Service made
nine visits to the Borough of Chelsea during 1964. These included
the annual visit to the Chelsea College of Science and Technology and
to the College of St. Mark and St. John, to X-ray students and staff.
Visits were also made to X-ray staff of two large stores, the Power
Station at Lots Road, and one engineering firm where a case of tuberculosis
had occurred on the premises.
Several hundred men in the over 45 years of age group, who live
or work in Chelsea, are attending the special six-monthly service,
which was started in 1958, to provide regular chest X-ray examinations,
in an effort to detect more cases of lung cancer in the earlier stages
of the disease. In connection with this service, a Mobile Unit
visited a site in Manresa Road in April and November.
Residents in Chelsea are making use of the facilities available
to all members of the public at the Central Mass X-Ray Centre at the
Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, S.W.6. This Centre is open all the
year round to everyone over the age of 15, (irrespective of where they
work or live), on Wednesday afternoons and evenings, between 2 p.m.
4 p.m. and 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. No appointments are needed for these
public sessions, but ante-natal patients and children between the
ages of 6 - 8 years, referred by clinics or general practitioners,
are required to make an appointment beforehand. Children aged 8 - 14
years sure X-rayed at the public sessions, if it is requested by their
general practitioner.
20 general practitioners in the Borough of Chelsea use the
G.P. Referral Service, and send patients to this Centre for chest
X-ray examinations.
Ante-Natal Clinics in the Borough continue to send their
patients to the large film sessions which are provided for them at
the Western Hospital Mass X-Ray Centre. During the year, many
parties of school children, who were positive reactors to tuberculin
skin tests given in connection with the London County Council B.C.G.
Innoculation Scheme, came to this Centre for chest X-ray examinations.
Cases of tuberculosis discovered amongst those attending from
the Borough of Chelsea are not recorded separately, but in the year
under review, a total of 104,000 people were examined in South West
London by Units of the Mass X-Ray Service, as a result of which,
178 cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis were referred to Chest
Clinics for treatment.
Employers and Managements are asked to co-operate in the elimination
of tuberculosis in offices, factories and other places of
work, by notifying the Headquarters of the South West London Mass XRay
Service whenever a case of tuberculosis occurs amongst those whom
they employ, so that a Mobile Unit can be sent immediately to X-ray
everyone on the premises.