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Show ' Report Given On County X-Rays During January and February of this year the mobile X-ray unit of the Utah State Board of Health with the cooperation of the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association Associa-tion and the Utah Medical Society, Soci-ety, completed X-raying all high school students, fifteen years of age and over in Utah county, as well as patients at the Utah State Mental Hospital and . the State Training School. The following results re-sults have just been released: Total X-rays made, 7,162; tuberculosis tub-erculosis suspects, 51; cardiac suspects, sus-pects, 117; cancer suspects, 5; other pathology, 46. The persons receiving reports showing the necessity of further examination have all been referred refer-red to their private physicians. These figures clearly indicate the need of mass X-ray and plans are being made by your Tuberculosis Tubercu-losis Association and the Medical Society to have the mobile X-ray unit in Utah county this coming summer to complete an X-ray survey. |