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THE tenth annual reports of the National Radium Trust and Radium Commission (1938-1939) follow the general form of previous reports, but constitute, owing to special difficulties in planning for future developments, a more tenuous publication than usual. One of the most important events external to the chief work of the Commission has been the passing of the Cancer Act on March 29, 1939; this naturally receives a welcome from the Commission, and has been followed by an enlargement of the personnel of that body. As is generally known, the effect of the Act is to throw upon the major local authorities, county and county borough councils, the duty of securing proper facilities for cancer treatment on behalf of people in their areas; this will of necessity call for close collaboration with members of the Radium Commission whose knowledge and experience of radiological methods as practised in all the important centres in the country should secure a high level of efficiency in treatment and economy in practical methods.
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National Radium Trust and Radium Commission. Nature 145, 891–892 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145891d0
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