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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southall 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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A visit to Taylor Woodrow's factory by the Mass X-ray Unit took place on the 13th
January. Three hundred and forty-one persons were X-rayed, 266 males and 75 females,
and all of the employees were found to be tuberculosis negative.
Graph C is a pictorial representation of the statistics of tuberculosis in the Borough
from 1930 to 1952 and shows a falling death rate from this disease since 1949.
Graph C
Tuberculosis (All Forms)—Notifications and Deaths from 1930 to 1952
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