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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Deptford 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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The Director of this Unit remarks:—
" You will notice that the incidence of tuberculous cases requiring
treatment is five per thousand, which is high. Of these cases, precisely
one-quarter had been previously X-rayed by mass radiography units and
seven of these within the last two years."