§ 19. Mr. Malcolm MacPhersonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland to what extent mass radiography is now used for the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
§ The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Woodburn)Over 300,000 chest examinations have been carried out by mass radiography since 1944. In the last year for which figures are available, up to 30th June, 1949, over 97,000 examinations were made as a result of which 670 persons were found to have active tuberculosis.