Presidential Address to the Society of Radiographers

Abstract

First I wish to thank you for the high honour you have conferred upon me in making me President of this Society. It was my privilege to serve on the first Council of this Society, and it has been my privilege, with only a short break, to serve on the Council up to the present time. I have been looking back to the beginning of this Society, and I think I cannot do better than take you over the way we have come and show you where we stand, that we may consider together how and why the Society of Radiographers was formed—consider its aims and objects, and how we are living up to these aims and accomplishing the objects. I am in my thirtieth year as radiographer. Back in the year 1918 a gentleman called to see me in the X-ray department of St. Thomas's. It was the witching hour of 5 o'clock when all good radiographers are preparing to go home. This gentleman introduced himself as Forder of King's. He was a very worried looking gentleman, and said, “I have been sent to see you as some of us have been talking o...