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Mass X-Ray Service
(This report was kindly supplied by the Organising Secretary of the
South-West London Mass X-Ray Service).
In 1962, Mobile Units of the South West London Mass X-Ray Service
made 66 visits to firms and organisations in the City of Westminster,
during which 26,650 persons were examined, of whom 89 were referred
to Chest Clinics for further investigation. Two Colleges were visited in
connection with the London County Council B.C.G. Inoculation Scheme
to X-ray students who were positive reactors to the tuberculin skin tests.
During July and part of August a Mass X-Ray Centre was opened at
the Abbey Community Centre, Marsham Street, S.W.I, which was
attended by nearly 2,000 employees from offices and organisations in the
district, and also by over 2,000 members of the public. As a result of
the 4,000 examinations made, seven persons were referred for further
investigation.
A Mass X-Ray Unit was installed for a period on the premises of
three large organisations in the Victoria, Strand and Embankment
districts, where 3,254 were X-rayed from their staff. Thirteen cases were
sent to Chest Clinics for further examination.
The same Unit later made a visit of four weeks to the Board of Trade
and X-rayed 3,473 civil servants from Ministries in Whitehall, of whom
four were referred for further investigation.
The regular monthly visits to Bruce House, the L.C.C. Lodging
House in Kemble Street, W.C.2, which were begun in 1958 were continued
throughout 1962. During the year, letters of invitation were sent to
all newcomers there, and in all 513 residents were X-rayed, of whom 17
were referred to Chest Clinics and five to Chest Hospitals. Visits were
also made to the Salvation Army Hostel and The Church Army Hostel in
Great Peter Street. Altogether 810 hostel residents have been examined
of whom 27 were referred to Chest Clinics. Final returns on all cases
are not yet available, but it is known that seven infectious cases were
found, and six cases were in need of out-patient treatment.
The six-monthly service for men over forty-five years of age, which
was inaugurated in South London in December, 1958, in an attempt to