The Future Role of Mass Chest Radiography in General Health Service

¹ Stockholm, Sweden

The mass chest examinations, as routinely carried out hitherto, include important possibilities for further development with increased gain for the general health work. It is our obligation to utilize systematically and exploit by means of this method the valuable factors of early detection of such nontuberculous findings as pulmonary cancer, other tumors of the chest, sarcoidosis, certain occupational diseases, localized in the chest, and cardiovascular lesions. The improvements in question can be expected to increase the medical gain of the mass chest examinations many times over in proportion to the resultant increases in cost and labor. Beyond these broadened margins of the organizational and diagnostic side, the technical carrying out of the procedure is in need of improvements, which, with some good, will easily be achieved and will guarantee a much better gain of this important type of health work.