Abstract
THE International Recommendations for roentgen-ray and radium protection, which were elaborated at the Second Congress of Radiology, in Stockholm, in 1928, and revised at the Third Congress, in Paris, in 1931, are now observed by most roentgen-ray and radium workers throughout the world. These Recommendations are also steadily assuming increasing importance with various lay organizations, such as hospital boards, insurance companies, health agencies, etc., whenever the question of application of roentgen rays or radium is being considered. More recently, the health committee of the League of Nations, by collecting from the literature a bibliography of between five and six hundred articles and assembling all the protective measures adopted by the various countries, issued a most comprehensive pamphlet dealing with the subject. In America, an Advisory Committee on Roentgen-ray and Radium Protection was formed shortly after the International Congress, at Stockholm, in 1928. This Committee is composed of two ...
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