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During 1971 also, the Mass X-ray Unit visited the Uxbridge area and examined 5,502 members
of the public compared with 5,363 examinations on the occasion of the previous visit to the same
area in 1967. Thirty-seven persons were referred for further investigation but in only eight cases
were abnormalities requiring treatment discovered, two of these being cases of active pulmonary
tuberculosis. In the 1967 survey, four cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were discovered.
LONG STAY IMMIGRANTS
Since 1965 it has been the practice for port medical inspectors to forward to Medical Officers
of Health destination addresses of all long stay immigrants referred to them. Such immigrants on
arrival at the port of entry are issued with a pink card which is printed in four European languages
as well as Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali, drawing their attention to facilities provided under
the National Health Service and urging them to register with a doctor. The Medical Officer of
Health arranges for visits to be made to the destination addresses with which he has been supplied
so that the immigrant can be pursuaded to act on the advice given on the pink card.
The table below gives the number of advice notices received during the year from ports and
airports relating to arrival of immigrants in this area.
It frequently happens, because of language difficulties at the port of entry or for other reasons
that the destination address is not known, or the immigrant has not been there, or has alreadv left
for an unknown destination and not all visits to destination addresses are successful.
The table
also includes the number of successful visits at which contact was made with the immigrants
during the year.