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Mass X-ray
The mobile Mass X-ray Unit visited certain organised groups in Southall during 1962,
and also paid a longer visit during the summer to include public sessions. The following
numbers were X-rayed:—
A.E.C. 1,168
Manor House 1,976
Quaker Oats 152
Abbott Bros. 116
G. Wimpey, Toplocks Depot 167
Hygrade Containers, Hanwell 369
Crown Cork 378
British Railways Hostel 99
Kearley & Tonge 685
H. G. Sanders 174
James Davies 116
Cramic Engineering 487
Lady Margaret Road 320
The Wolf, Norwood Green 245
Manor House 1,079
St. Bernard's Hospital 1,900
9,431
Southall residents: 6,723
Cases of active P.T. 5 (Southall residents 4)
Cases for observation 9 (Southall residents 6)
Cases of bronchial carcinoma 6 (Southall residents 6)
It will be seen that a considerable survey of St. Bernard's Hospital patients and staff
was also carried out with the purpose of detecting any latent tuberculosis particularly
amongst long-stay patients. New staff is subject to X-ray examination on entry to the service.
There is now available at the West Middlesex Hospital a static Mass X-ray Unit,
the second to be introduced in Middlesex, and while primarily intended for the use of hospital
patients, there is an open invitation for any member of the public to attend, at any
time when the Unit is working, for a check. This is a most useful undertaking and supplements
the work done during the visit of the Mobile Unit to Southall. It also saves the need,
in most cases, of reference by appointment to the Chest X-ray Clinic for a large film to be
taken.
Dr. J. T. Nicol Roe, Chest Physician, Uxbridge Chest Clinic, reports on the need for
continued aggressive action in detecting the new case of pulmonary tuberculosis, for only
by so doing and treating this case effectively will diminution of new cases be maintained.
The continued co-operation of local General Practitioners in referring to the Chest
Clinic newly arrived Indians and their families for X-rays and/or Tuberculin testing is an
essential part of the anti-tuberculosis programme.
Patients in the Southall area, as before, are admitted to Harefield Hospital. Dr. Nicol
Roe considers it is still a desirable thing for anti-tuberculous drugs to be initiated in hospital,
as a certain risk always exists towards the development of sensitivity reactions.