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THE fifth revised report (January 1938) of the British X-Ray and Radium Protection Committee shows that the Committee is alive to the necessity of continually adjusting its recommendations to the expanse of its subject. The chief additional items in this report are to be found in Section v, dealing with the necessary electrical precautions in X-ray rooms, in Section viii (C), which deals with radium teletherapy, and in Section ix, where the incidental dangers in the use of electro-medical apparatus, especially apparatus activated from the mains circuit, are considered. This report contains a valuable appendix giving the equivalent thickness of lead and materials in use for general radiation protection ; the data are supplied by the National Physical Laboratory. The services of the Laboratory are largely made use of by those in charge of radiological departments, both in a consultative capacity in planning, and for purposes of test when the assembly of apparatus is completed. Copies of the report are sent free on application to the Hon. Secretaries of the Committee, 32 Welbeck Street, W.I.
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X-Ray and Radium Protection. Nature 141, 824 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141824d0
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