Research


Administrative History

The chest x-ray program lent state-purchased x-ray equipment to general hospitals admitting 4,000 or more patients annually. The hospitals screened both inpatient and outpatient admissions. The Health Department reimbursed hospitals for each chest x-ray reading and used the hospital reports to develop statistical information about tuberculosis morbidity and mortality rates.

Important Department of Health officials in development of the case-finding programs were Robert E. Plunkett, M.D., Assistant Commissioner for Tuberculosis Control, and Bureau Directors William Siegal, M.D., Henry H. Shultz, M.D., and Julius Katz, M.D. New York City Department of Hospitals officials responsible for the city program were I.D. Bobrowitz, M.D., Commissioner, and Aaron D. Chavez, M.D., Director of the Tuberculosis Control Program for the city Departments of Health and Hospitals.