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Examining The Risks

The Hazards to Man of Nuclear and Allied Radiation. A second report to the Medical Research ,Council. ,(H,M.S.O., 7s.) Radiation, Genes and Man. By Bruce Wallace and Kee, 18s.)......

Books

Arithmetic of Woe By MICHAEL YOUNG I DOUBT whether the seventeen volumes of Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the PeoPle in London have been read by as many as seven- teen......