View report page

31
The Islington X Ray Centre
Dr. G. Z. Brett, Physician-in-Charge of the Static X-Ray Unit at Drayton Park has
kindly agreed to the following inclusion from his report which reviews the work of
the Unit for 1963.
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 annual
report:
Static X-Ray Centre

An analysis as under has been done of British born and other ethnic groups who
attended the Static Centre in Islington. The highest incidence of Tuberculosis was:
found in Cypriot and Irish bom men. The increase in Tuberculosis among West Indian
men observed in 1961 and 1962 was confirmed also in 1963 On the whole the non-British
born formed about 25% of all examinees and yielded about 45% of active Tuberculosis.