MASS X=RAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 4

MASS X=RAY

FIGHTING SERVICES TAKE UP NEW PROCESS. Six hundred workers in a British radio factory have had themselves X-rayed in their own time by a new process of mass radiology to be used eventually throughout Britain so that large numbers of people can be examined for tuberculosis and heart diseases quickly and economically. Only 1 per cent of the total were found to be unfit.

The process, which has also been used for soldiers in a military camp for the first time in England, is called mass miniature radiography. X-ray roll film photographs are taken with a miniature roll film camera and the 35 mm. radiographs of the lungs are thrown on a screen. If lesions are observed the examining doctors make a further X-ray and general examination of the patient. A special camera with a foolproof System of numbering and identifying the lung photographs of patients has been designed and patented by an Englishman who set up in business 30 years ago with a capital of £5 and now, with an electrical engineer for partner, has a concern worth £25,000. Presented by the Macmillan Co., New York, this unit is now in use by Britain’s Royal Army Medical Corps. Other units are being used by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.