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General practitioners have continued to send their patients to
the Unit with beneficial results.
Anyone wishing to obtain information on the Mass Radiography
Service should communicate with the Organising Secretary, Mass
Radiography Unit 6D, Pinsbury Health Centre, Pine Street, E.C.l.
(Tel. No. TERminus 0031, Ext. 9).
(Information kindly provided by Dr. W.D.R. Thompson, Chest Physician).
FINSBURY CHEST CLINIC:
(Information kindly provided by Dr. W.D.R. Thompson, Chest Physician).
During the year 1961 a total of 2,151 patients were seen in
the Chest Clinic. Of this total 211 attended for the first time
as contacts of notified cases, and a further 185 were re-examined
as routine contact checks.
The number of new cases of tuberculosis taken on the Clinic
register during the year amounted to 34, of which 33 were pulmonary
and 1 non-pulmonary, 16 of these pulmonary cases proved
to be infectious. In addition to these cases a further 13 notified
cases (all pulmonary) were transferred into the Borough from
other clinics and hospitals.

The previous year's total was 271.
During 1961 there were 4 deaths (3 males and 1 female), 6 lower
than 1960.
Of the cases removed from the register during 1961, a total of
3 were recovered, 19 were transferred out to other areas, and the
remaining 16 cases were removed from the register as "Diagnosis
not confirmed" (2), and "lost sight of" (14).
The total number of cases X-rayed during the year was 1,141.
The London County Council Tuberculosis Health Visitors,
seconded to the Chest Clinic, made 723 visits to homes in the
Borough during the year.
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