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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
Lewisham 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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(2)
| Agent identified:— | |||
| Salmonella group B | 2 | — | 2 |
| „ typhimurium | 6 | — | 6 |
| ,, give | 1 | — | 1 |
| Agent not identified | 4 | — | 4 |
(3) Salmonella infections, not food-borne
Nil
Mass radiography unit
I am indebted to the Director of the Unit for information of work
done in the borough during 1962 on which the following table is based.
Table 48
| General analysis | |||
| X-rayed | 2,541 | 1,340 | 3,881 |
| Previously x-rayed | 1,981 | 611 | 2,592 |
| Reviewed | 136 | 50 | 186 |
| Abnormal after review | 90 | 23 | 113 |
| Analysis of abnormal films:— | |||
| Cases considered tuberculous :— | |||
| — | — | — | |
| 4 | — | 4 | |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1 | — | 1 | |
| — | — | — | |
| Previously known tuberculous cases | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Non-tuberculous cases:— | |||
| 13 | 2 | 15 | |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Cardio-vascular lesions | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| No action required | 60 | 13 | 73 |
Commenting on the year's work, Dr. J. M. Morgan, director of
the south-east London mass x-ray, service, states:—
"The total of 3,881 examinations included 1,712 X-rayed during
visits to firms : 1,161 during brief visits to public centres, mainly for
men over forty-five : 865 in homes and hospitals and 143 at a school.
Of the three cases of significant tuberculosis discovered, one was found
at a firm, one in a hospital and the third among the kitchen staff in a
girl's school. After deducting 550 repeat examinations from the total of
3,881 X-rayed, the incidence of tuberculosis requiring close supervision
or treatment was 0.9 per thousand."