[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Swadlincote U.D.C.

  • Swadlincote (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Swadlincote U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MASS RADIOGRAPHY UNIT Swadlincote, 23rd September — 14th October, 1958 Once again we are deeply indebted to Dr. W. Guthrie, Medical Director and the Organising Secretary for making arrangements for the Nottingham Mass Radiography Unit to visit our town, and below are given relevant facts from Dr. Guthrie’s report :— The response on the part of the general public was, I am afraid, not very good on this occasion. Only 1,542 from this group came for X-ray, as compared with 2,766 in 1956. One of the reasons possibly for this is that the public library where we operated is some way from the centre of the town and difficult of access as it is near the top of a hill. As usual, the response from the school children was good, being 83%. It is interesting to note that the majority of the general public had been X-rayed before, i.e. 77% whereas in the case of the school children nearly all, i.e. 98% were X-rayed for the first time. No definite case of active pulmonary tuberculosis was discovered but there were three observation cases and they were referred to a Chest Physician for further investigation. The incidence of this form of pulmonary tuberculosis was .12%, which is a low incidence in a survey of this type and should these cases turn out to be active the incidence of active pulmonary tuberculosis could not be higher than .12% which would be lower than in 1956, when it was .17%. Two non-tuberculous conditions were discovered and referred to the Chest Physician. One of these had a normal film in 1956 which illustrates the value of periodic X-ray of the chest. It will be noted that eight people did not return for a large film, as requested. This high number is due to the fact that, as already mentioned, we had difficulty with our X-ray set and more people than usual were recalled for large film. The majority came but the eight who did not come had technical faults in connection with their miniature films and would most likely have been normal in any case. SCABIES TREATMENT There were no cases of Scabies treated at the clinic during the year.