Mass Miniature Radiography of Civilians for the Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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?n Britain and in the U.S.A. for detection of symptomless or latent pulmonary tuberculosis, but most of the work of this type was at first confined to the services. In 1941, in view of the increasing incidence ?f tuberculosis in war time, the Medical Research Council appointed a committee of enquiry, and next year this committee issued a report, one of its proposals being for the controlled use of mass radiography among the civilian population. There was also a
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