Where (if anywhere) were X-ray machines put on trains or trolleys to image “Everybody over 14 years old”?
The background image in this X-ray analysis sotfware page shows what looks like a trolley or train car on tracks with a sign that says "X-ray Now: Everybody over 14 years old".
Where might this have been and when? Was this practice widespread worldwide at some time in the past? What was the advertised purpose, and if there was an underlying purpose different than that, what might it have been?
Screen Shot of http://maud.radiographema.eu/moPTT/ click for full size view:
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The background image in this X-ray analysis sotfware page shows what looks like a trolley or train car on tracks with a sign that says "X-ray Now: Everybody over 14 years old".
Where might this have been and when? Was this practice widespread worldwide at some time in the past? What was the advertised purpose, and if there was an underlying purpose different than that, what might it have been?
Screen Shot of http://maud.radiographema.eu/moPTT/ click for full size view:
identification public-health
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uhohuhoh
1786
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The first MRIs too I think. Modern versions now travel the countryside in trucks. These pieces of equipment were too expensive, and in need, to sit inside a building with low access from the population.
– Mazura
1 hour ago
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The background image in this X-ray analysis sotfware page shows what looks like a trolley or train car on tracks with a sign that says "X-ray Now: Everybody over 14 years old".
Where might this have been and when? Was this practice widespread worldwide at some time in the past? What was the advertised purpose, and if there was an underlying purpose different than that, what might it have been?
Screen Shot of http://maud.radiographema.eu/moPTT/ click for full size view:
identification public-health
asked 3 hours ago
uhohuhoh
1786
The background image in this X-ray analysis sotfware page shows what looks like a trolley or train car on tracks with a sign that says "X-ray Now: Everybody over 14 years old".
Where might this have been and when? Was this practice widespread worldwide at some time in the past? What was the advertised purpose, and if there was an underlying purpose different than that, what might it have been?
Screen Shot of http://maud.radiographema.eu/moPTT/ click for full size view:
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uhohuhoh
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The first MRIs too I think. Modern versions now travel the countryside in trucks. These pieces of equipment were too expensive, and in need, to sit inside a building with low access from the population.
– Mazura
1 hour ago
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The first MRIs too I think. Modern versions now travel the countryside in trucks. These pieces of equipment were too expensive, and in need, to sit inside a building with low access from the population.
– Mazura
1 hour ago
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The first MRIs too I think. Modern versions now travel the countryside in trucks. These pieces of equipment were too expensive, and in need, to sit inside a building with low access from the population.
– Mazura
1 hour ago
The first MRIs too I think. Modern versions now travel the countryside in trucks. These pieces of equipment were too expensive, and in need, to sit inside a building with low access from the population.
– Mazura
1 hour ago
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It was in Glasgow in 1957, as part of the fight against tuberculosis.
- [Image source Wellcome Collection CC BY]
This page from the People's History of the NHS explains:
Despite reduced incidence of tuberculosis in England and Wales, Scotland, and in particular Glasgow, had been dogged by tuberculosis throughout the immediate postwar period. By the 1950s the Department of Health for Scotland was committed to reducing the incidence of the disease by creating an X-Ray campaign accompanied by a media 'blitz'. As part of Glasgow's X-Ray campaign against tuberculosis, 11 March to 12 April 1957, Glasgow Corporation produced this large advertisement to be displayed on the side of a tram car in the city.
answered 3 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba
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I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
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@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
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It was in Glasgow in 1957, as part of the fight against tuberculosis.
- [Image source Wellcome Collection CC BY]
This page from the People's History of the NHS explains:
Despite reduced incidence of tuberculosis in England and Wales, Scotland, and in particular Glasgow, had been dogged by tuberculosis throughout the immediate postwar period. By the 1950s the Department of Health for Scotland was committed to reducing the incidence of the disease by creating an X-Ray campaign accompanied by a media 'blitz'. As part of Glasgow's X-Ray campaign against tuberculosis, 11 March to 12 April 1957, Glasgow Corporation produced this large advertisement to be displayed on the side of a tram car in the city.
answered 3 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba
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I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
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@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
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It was in Glasgow in 1957, as part of the fight against tuberculosis.
- [Image source Wellcome Collection CC BY]
This page from the People's History of the NHS explains:
Despite reduced incidence of tuberculosis in England and Wales, Scotland, and in particular Glasgow, had been dogged by tuberculosis throughout the immediate postwar period. By the 1950s the Department of Health for Scotland was committed to reducing the incidence of the disease by creating an X-Ray campaign accompanied by a media 'blitz'. As part of Glasgow's X-Ray campaign against tuberculosis, 11 March to 12 April 1957, Glasgow Corporation produced this large advertisement to be displayed on the side of a tram car in the city.
answered 3 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba
47.9k6162209
I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
2
@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
add a comment |
It was in Glasgow in 1957, as part of the fight against tuberculosis.
- [Image source Wellcome Collection CC BY]
This page from the People's History of the NHS explains:
Despite reduced incidence of tuberculosis in England and Wales, Scotland, and in particular Glasgow, had been dogged by tuberculosis throughout the immediate postwar period. By the 1950s the Department of Health for Scotland was committed to reducing the incidence of the disease by creating an X-Ray campaign accompanied by a media 'blitz'. As part of Glasgow's X-Ray campaign against tuberculosis, 11 March to 12 April 1957, Glasgow Corporation produced this large advertisement to be displayed on the side of a tram car in the city.
answered 3 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba
47.9k6162209
It was in Glasgow in 1957, as part of the fight against tuberculosis.
- [Image source Wellcome Collection CC BY]
This page from the People's History of the NHS explains:
Despite reduced incidence of tuberculosis in England and Wales, Scotland, and in particular Glasgow, had been dogged by tuberculosis throughout the immediate postwar period. By the 1950s the Department of Health for Scotland was committed to reducing the incidence of the disease by creating an X-Ray campaign accompanied by a media 'blitz'. As part of Glasgow's X-Ray campaign against tuberculosis, 11 March to 12 April 1957, Glasgow Corporation produced this large advertisement to be displayed on the side of a tram car in the city.
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I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
2
@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
add a comment |
I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
2
@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
I see, this is more recent than I expected. Thanks for the lightning-fast answer!
– uhoh
3 hours ago
2
2
@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
@uhoh My father's side of the family come from Glasgow. I had seen pictures of that tram before. I also remember 'No spitting' signs on Glasgow buses when I was a boy in the 1960s!
– sempaiscuba♦
3 hours ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
Note too that the X-ray machine wasn't in the tram, it was solely used as a promotional campaign tool to get people to go to the hospitals.
– jwenting
11 mins ago
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The first MRIs too I think. Modern versions now travel the countryside in trucks. These pieces of equipment were too expensive, and in need, to sit inside a building with low access from the population.
– Mazura
1 hour ago