The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

IJune, 1951 The Health Bulletin 25equipment for county health departmentsAllotment of $75,000 to counties to beused in tuberculosis controlOn occasion, furnishing minor equipmenton loan to county health departmentsPersonnel and EquipmentThere are twenty-two persons employedby the Section. Personnel consistsof two doctors, two health educators(one white and one Negro, both ofwhom are female), one part-time consultantnurse, one chief clerk, ten x-raytechnicians, and six other persons.Equipments consists of:Eight mobile x-ray units with tractorsOne portable 14 x 17 WestinghouseunitOne generatorOne 4x5 x-ray unit located in theReviewing Section at Duke HospitalOne Chevrolet carry-all.Activities during 1950Special surveys were conducted inthirty-eight communities and includedstate institutions, colleges and schools,the general public, industry, and specialgroups selected by health oflBcers. Someschools, colleges, and state institutionswere surveyed by special request. Theseare generally routinely surveyed duringmass surveys of an area. Those surveyedby special request in 1950 were:Schools and Colleges:Wake Forest College Wake ForestWashington High School RaleighEastern Carolina Teachers CollegeGreenvilleGreene County High SchoolSnow HillJohnston County Teachers- SmithfieldMethodist OrphanageRaleighUnion County Teachers MonroeState CollegeRaleighUniversity of North CarolinaChapel HillCommunity-wide sui'veys were completedin health department jurisdictionsnamed below:Hertford-GatesWashington-TyrrellLenoir-JonesOnslow-PenderRobesonColumbusBladenBrunswickNashFranklinWilsonCaswell County Teachers -YanceyvilleCity of Rocky Mount SchoolsRocky MountPeace InstituteRaleighMeredith CollegeRaleighShaw UniversityRaleighSaint Augustine College RaleighState Institutions:State School for Blind RaleighState HospitalGoldsboroState HospitalRaleighWomen's PrisonRaleighNumber of X-Ray Plates MadeDuring the year over 300,000 x-rayplates were made. The type and numbertaken is listed below:70 mm. plates madeduring mass andspecial surveys 298,3004x5 plates madeat Duke UniversityHospital 15,24614 X 17 plates madeduring followupclinics9,000 (estimated)Findings322,546Findings are recorded according torate per 10,000 persons examined andinclude community-wide surveys only inwhich follow-up activities were carriedout by our personnel. Persons who werereexamined represented 92% of thosewho actually were in need of reexaminationand our figures are based on thisgroup.During 1950, 15 counties were surveyedand the results tabulated below include14 of these counties. The survey inWilson County was completed December23 and the final results have not beentabulated as of this date.Findings are:Rate per 10,000 persons examinedPulmonary scars 144.6