At the New York World's Fair, in the Medicine & Public Health Building, is a high-speed X-ray machine. Visitors line up for white jackets, have an X-ray of their chests for $1. Results are sent to the family physician. Last week the machine had a startling story to tell: of 11,234 supposedly healthy persons examined last year, 3.3% were active (clinically significant) tuberculosis cases—six times the national rate.
Dr. James Risley Reuling, chairman of the Queens County Medical Society's Fair Commission (which sponsors the machine), felt the findings showed need for a serious revision in both the New York City Health Department's...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
