MASS RADIOGRAPHY

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26560, 24 October 1951, Page 8

MASS RADIOGRAPHY

EXAMINATION OF P. AND T. EMPLOYEES The X-ray examination of more than 1000 employees of the Post and Telegraph Department in Christchurch was begun yesterday by the liepartment of Health, using the miniature mass radiography plant from the North Canterbury Hospital Board’s chest clinic in Armagh street The equipment has been installed on the fourth floor of the new Post Office in Hereford street The examination of employees from a department such as this demands a great deal of preliminary organisation, but yesterday afternoon everything worked so smoothly that in the fir; t two hours more than 220 men were examined. The survey will be finished on 'Friday. Because it was impossible to have any section of the Post Office dosed, employees from the various sections and various districts came in small groups. On their arrival at the fourth floor they were given their own record cards, compiled by the Health Department previously from information given by the Post and Telegraph Department the cards, being placed alphabetically for ease in sorting. The cards have to be placed in the X-ray machine before it will operate, and the results are shown on a film, the examination of which will begin almost immediately.