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health education can only command a small part of our resources
because of more pressing and more tangible commitments.
We have a long way to catch up with the publicity campaigns
of commercial firms but there is a growing awareness that the preventive
health services must advertise much more and 1 hope that
the next few years will show a marked advance in this respect.
MASS RADIOGRAPHY
After a period of three years, the Mass Radiography Unit 6a,
based on the C'onnaught Hospital, Walthamstow, E.17, again paid
a welcome visit to the Town in January, 1957. Below is given a
summary of the survey conducted by the unit: —
Male Female Total
Number X -ayed 4,233 5,148 9,381
Number ecalled for further
examination 103 90 193
Number v o did not attend for
furthe examination 2 3 5
Tuberculosis:
(a) Requi lg medical treatment 3 3 6
(b) Requi g supervision 9 12 21
Other abnormalities
(i) Cancer of lung 7 3 10
(ii) Heart Disease 5 10 15
(iii) Other including pneumonia,
emphy na, sarcoidosis, etc.) 28 12 40
It was significant that in a letter addressed to all family
doctors in the area, the Director of the Unit made the following
statement:—
Our experiance in a neighbouring borough earlier this year
shows that the expected yield of tuberculous cases requiring
immediate treatment is increased nearly four-fold if we concentrate
on Doctor's cases. By this we mean persons attending surgeries,
not necessarily with overt respiratory symptoms but with vague
symptoms of any kind. It is also our experience that a large
number is found among young women under 30, men over 40 and
those who have never been X-rayed before.
are also finding increasing numbers of middle-aged men
with carcinoma of the lung."
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