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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
Sutton and Cheam 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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MASS RADIOGRAPHY
A Mass Miniature Radiography Unit visited the Borough on the
12th September, 1962, being stationed near the Woodstock Hotel, when
three hundred and thirty members of the general public were examined. In
addition, Units made a number of visits to industrial premises, examining
a total of six hundred persons.
This gave a total of nine hundred and thirty persons examined (five
hundred and ninety males and three hundred and forty females), and out
of these, one man was found to require treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis
and two men were found to have primary lung cancer
This shewed an incidence of pulmonary,tuberculosis of just over one
per thousand persons examined, and of lung cancer of just over two per
thousand persons examined.
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