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Mass Radiography Unit 6D.
(.Information kindly provided by Dr. W. D. R. Thompson, Medical
Director.)
Mass Radiography Unit 6D has maintained its usual services
during 1954 in the zone for which it is responsible, viz,, the City
of London and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Finsbury and Shoreditch
The total number examined during the year was 61,671, comprising
36,238 males and 25,433 females, which is an increase of about 2.5
per cent, on the previous year's figures.
Half-way through 1954 the Ministry of Health introduced a
new method of statistical information required from Mass Radiography
Units, so that it is not now possible to indicate the number of cases
found with active Tuberculosis, but for the year under review 1,413
cases were discovered with tuberculous lesions.
For the major part of the year the Unit was static at the Mass
Radiography Centre, 20 Goldern Lane, E.C.i, during which period
the Unit has examined organised groups of workers, and also residents
within its zone. Over fifteen hundred firms have utilised the services
of the Unit.
When the Unit was "mobile" a number of large firms, which
could provide suitable accommodation for the X-ray equipment and
a sufficiency of examinees to ensure that the "Survey" would be
economical, were visited.
From 31st May to nth June, 1954, the Unit operated in the
Health Centre, Pine Street, E.C.I, by kind permission of the Health
Committee of the Borough Council. Prior to the visit firms in Finsbury
were circulated, with particular concentration upon firms in the
northern section of the Borough, as those in the southern area are
adequately catered for when the Unit is at 20 Golden Lane, E.C.I.
Firms desirous of participating in the Survey were asked to return
to the Unit the numbers of their volunteers, when detailed
programmes, of appointments were prepared and dispatched to the
firms concerned.
Nearly 130 firms responded to this circulation with a total
aggregate of 2,161 examinees. When appointments were not kept
alternative dates were offered whenever possible. General practitioners
within the Borough were also circulated.