[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council.

  • Surrey (England). County Council
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give every assistance. The Royal County Show was again visited with great success. The Standing Conference and individual Care Committees have given valuable assistance to the Unit generally, and the A oluntary Association for the Surrey Disabled have also given considerable help during the year. The Jig Saw Library still functions on a smaller scale, the Standing Conference meeting ex¬ penses which are mainly postal. The amount expended on consumable materials was £3,700 14s. 9d. as compared with £3,435 4s. Gd. in 1961. The average number of domiciliary visits is approximately the same as last year. Generally the standard of work is very high and there has been a marked increase in the amount of remunerative occupation obtained and carried out by both Chest and Other Handicapped persons. The number of persons receiving Occupational Therapy on the 31 st December, 1962 was 728 of whom there were : (1) chest cases, 193 domiciliary, 43 in hospital and 23 postal ; (2) other handicapped classes, 267 domiciliary, 30 postal and 172 attending centres. Rehabilitation and Colonisation. During 1962 the Council were liable for the maintenance of 4 tuberculous patients at the following institutions :— Preston Hall ... ... ... 2 Enham-Alamein ... ... 1 Pap worth ... ... ... 1 Chest Physicians also use the facilities available at the Government Training Centres at Waddon and Egham. Mass Radiography. I am indebted to the Medical Director of the Surrey Mass Radiography Units from whose report the following information is extracted. The area covered by the units includes, in addition to the Administrative County of Surrey, the County Borough of Croydon and parts of North East Hampshire and North Sussex. The statistics quoted below relate to the whole area covered by the units. In 1962 the Surrey Mass Radiography Service x-rayed 119,499 persons. Two separate services are operated as follows :— General Practitioner Chest X-ray Service : 11,177 examinations. Normal Mass Radiography Service : 108,322 examinations. The Medical Director comments that the number of cases of significant tuberculosis found has not altered appreciably, the incidence rate remaining unchanged at 1.4 per 1,000 examinations. He hopes that a national publicity campaign will be promoted to encourage people to volunteer for annual chest x-ray through the Mass Radiography Service. The Medical Director also mentions the small pilot survey commenced in 1962 whereby all teachers and non-teaching staff in contact with school children in the North Central Division were to be offered chest x-ray examinations at special sessions (see also Tuberculosis in Schools, page 86). He points out that, as one infectious case of pulmonary tuberculosis was found out of only 547 staff examined there is every reason to promote a vigorous policy of regular, annual chest x-ray examina¬ tions of all adults working with school children. The survey had not been completed by the end of the year. The following statistics give an indication of the work of the Surrey Mass Radiography Units during the year :— General Practitioner Chest X-ray Service. Normal Mass Radiography Service. I960 1961 1962 1960 1961 1962 Total number X-rayed 9,100 11,144 11,177 94,074 109,679 108,322 Significant Pulmonary Tuberculosis* 44 54 43 104 153 151 Primary Lung Cancer 53 71 56 31 42 35 Number of men aged 45 years and over X-rayed 2,282 2,724 2,928 18,795 18,740 20,266 Primary Lung Cancer 49 55 48 27 38 29 Incidence rate per 1,000 examinations 21.5 20.1 16.4 1.4 2.0 1.4 * “Significant pulmonary tuberculosis” includes any newly detected case requiring treatment or close observa¬ tion at a chest clinic.
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