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Recheck at Unit at later date 6 6 12
Did not attend 2 1 3
School children examined (these figures are included above):—
Male Female Total
x-rayed 152 316 468
Recalled for large films 1 5 6
Those recalled were dealt with as follows:—
No further action 1 3 4
Further advice recommended 1 1
Recheck at Unit at later date 1 1
The response from factories in the Borough was disappointing, only
20 making arrangements for the staff to attend in organised groups
On this occasion the members of the public were asked to attend the
unit without making previous appointments as it was hoped that by this
means more people would be induced to attend On every visit of the
x-ray unit to the Borough a few people complain that there are no
evening sessions and, therefore, it is said it is not possible for the men
and women who are working out of the Borough to receive the benefit
of a regular chest x-ray It is not generally understood that in the course
of a little more than a year the mobile x-ray units visit every part of
their areas By this means, and with the full co-operation of the management
of factories and offices, it is hoped that all members of the community
will have the opportunity of a chest x-ray at intervals of about
a year; those at work obtaining the x-ray at or near their place of work
and housewives and others, who are able to do so, obtaining it when the
unit visits their home borough
In my Annual Report for 1953 Isuggested that if the scheme of separation
of sexes at the x-ray unit were abolished people could attend in
family groups and it may be that some of the older generation would
be encouraged to attend with their children I am glad to know that
when the mobile unit again visits Hornsey, in the autumn, there will be
no separation of the sexes On this occasion, too, the unit will really
be mobile as it now has its own office accommodation and can move as
a completely self-contained unit to various sites in the Borough This
should prove a definite advantage and it is hoped will encourage a
greater response from the management of factories in the Borough as
the time needed to travel to and from the unit will be greatly reduced
TUBERCULOSIS: SURVEY OF FINSBURY PARK WARD
The Health Department co-operated with the Physician to the Chest
Clinic in carrying out a research survey in the Finsbury Park Ward It
is hoped that the survey will give a picture of the incidence of tuberculosis
in the community and some indication of "undiscovered" tuberculosis
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