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Radiography in Canada and United States

Winnipeg, Canada

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I am very pleased to be here to-night and to be allowed to say a few words to you. The first thing for me to do is to extend very hearty greetings to you from the American Society of Radiographers. We were extremely pleased to have your Secretary with us at our last meeting.

I have not prepared anything definite to speak to you about to-night, but thought I would just talk to you about our Society. The American Society began in October 1920, and for the first three or four years we found it very difficult. Some of you may not realise the difficulties we have; the greatest one is our enormous territory. We have only about thirty members in Canada, and our total membership is not much larger than that of your Society. We do not, however, want a big society which would become unworkable. We cannot have monthly meetings; we only meet once a year, and then have a four-day meeting. The social side of this annual meeting scarcely exists, except for one banquet.

I am not going to say anything about the general conditions of the radiographer on the other side: I shall leave that to Mr. Melville.

In Canada, we are even more handicapped than they are in the United States; we have a total population of about ten millions, and, except in a few of the larger centres, we have just one school here and there. We have a local society in Winnipeg composed largely of radiographers.