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Bexley, Erith and Crayford Mass X-Ray Campaign
May 23rd to 30th June, 1960
The idea of a Mass X-Ray Campaign for the Boroughs of Bexley and Erith
and the Urban District of Crayford arose out of a report entitled "No Time for
Complacency", issued in May, 1958 by the South East London Mass Radiography
Service and which covered the area of South East London and North West Kent.
The report indicated that, although great improvements had taken place in
recent years in the treatment of tuberculosis, there was little evidence that
this progress had yet effected a material decrease in the incidence of new
cases of tuberculosis or in the size of the reservoir of long-standing
tuberculosis cases within the community.
The figure relating to the incidence of tuberculosis per 1,000 x-rayed
for the three towns appeared to provide "prima facie" evidence that further
action was indicated and the Councils of Bexley, Erith and Crayford readily
agreed to co operate with the Mass Radiography Service in planning a comprehensive
survey on the lines of the one carried out in Glasgow in 1957.
The Area Under Review

These figures are for the total population in the area, but the Mass
X-Ray Campaign was only concerned with the ambulant adult population.
A full account of the Campaign has been published as a separate report
and may be obtained from Dr J.M. Morgan Director, South-East London Mass
X Ray Service. New Cross General Hospital, Avonley Road, London, S, E 14 The
following statistics relating to the survey are extracted from the main report.
Certain observations on these findings are made in the Foreword on Pages 3 and 4.
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