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National Radium Trust

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The National Radium Trust was a British quasi-governmental organisation,[1] set up on 25 July 1929,[2] and abolished with the introduction of the NHS in 1948.[3] It was intended to collect funding from the general public, and use it for supplying radium and other radiotherapeutic devices, to treat sick people in Great Britain.

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  1. ^ Robert Bothwell (November 2011). Eldorado: Canada's National Uranium Company. University of Toronto Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4426-1294-5.
  2. ^ Spear, F. G. (November 1949). "The National Radium Commission in Retrospect – Silvanus Thompson Lecture, 1949". The British Journal of Radiology. 22 (263): 617–626. doi:10.1259/0007-1285-22-263-617. ISSN 0007-1285. PMID 15400161.
  3. ^ "The National Radium Trust and Commission". Nature. 162 (4112): 288–289. 21 August 1948. doi:10.1038/162288d0. ISSN 1476-4687.
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