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MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR LONG-STAY IMMIGRANTS
At ports of arrival long-stay immigrants, both Commonwealth and alien, are referred
to medical inspectors and given a pamphlet printed in languages which they
are likely to understand. This is to encourage them to register with a medical practitioner
in their place of residence so that he can arrange for them to go to a mass
radiogaphy unit, a chest clinic or a hospital for X-ray.
The health department is notified of the names and addresses of immigrants entering
the Borough with the object of ensuring that at an early date the immigrants are
made aware of how to use the Health Service. An important aim of the department
is to secure by persuasion that those from countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis
have an X-ray of the chest as soon as possible.
The following table, based on returns made to the Ministry of Health, shows the
number notified to the department during 1967, and the number of successful visits
made. Unsuccessful visits occur where the immigrant has moved out of the Borough
and has left no forwarding address.