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Sutton and Cheam 1963
[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 from the
27th to 30th August 1963, being stationed near the Queen Victoria Ho el,
North Cheam, when nine hundred and seventy members of the general
public were examined. A further visit was made from the 5th to 15th
November, 1963, when a Unit was stationed by the Public Hall, Sutton,
examining two thousand, four hundred and forty members of the general
public and one thousand and eighty members of industrial groups In
addition a Unit visited a local hospital and examined one hundred members
of the staff.
This gave a total of four thousand, five hundred and ninety persons
examined (one thousand, eight hundred and seventy males and two thousand,
seven hundred and twenty females) and out of these, one man was found to
require treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and three men and one woman
were found to have primary lung cancer
This showed an incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis of 0 22 per
thousand persons examined, and of lung cancer of 0.87 per thousand
persons examined
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