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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

Carshalton 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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Mass X-Ray
One of the Mass X-Ray Units of the South-West Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board visited the district in November, when it was
set up in the County Council's Day Nursery premises in Green Wrythe
Lane.

Table: The following details of its activities and findings are suppliedthrough the courtesy of the Medical Director of the Unit:

The following details of its activities and findings are supplied

through the courtesy of the Medical Director of the Unit:

MaleFemale
Total number examined1,1451,802
Pulmonary Tuberculosis—Active73
Pulmonary Tuberculosis—Inactive4979
Non-Tuberculous abnormalities5958

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One case failed to return for full size
X-ray examination
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