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The Islington X-Ray Centre
Dr. G.Z. Brett, Physician - in-Charge of the Mass X-Ray Unit sited at Drayton Park
has kindly agreed to the following inclusion from his report which reviews the work of
the Unit.
The Centre was officially opened in February 1952. It was originally intended to
provide X-Ray facilities for all those living and working in the Borough of Islington.
Within a year, however, practitioners in many neighbouring boroughs were also making use
of the facilities of the Centre. The following is extracted from Dr. Brett's Report:-

An analysis as under has been done of British born and other ethnic groups who
attended in the Static Centre in Islington. The highest incidence of Tuberculosis was
found in Irish born men. For the first time Asians and West Africans were recorded
separately. The incidence rates in small samples of these groups were high The increase
in Tuberculosis among West Indian men observed in 1961, was confirmed in 1962 On the
whole the non-British born contingent formed under 25% of all examinees and yielded about
42% of active Tuberculosis,