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Feb. 28 NEW HOSPITAL BRANCH IS LIKE VISION OF TIE, FUTURE LATEST IDEAS IN CANCER RESEARCH, RE INCORPORATED Exceedin3 the wildest dreams of Florence Nishtingale, the new Sutton, Surrey, branch of the famous Royal Marsden Hspital is a model of comfort and functional modernity. Here, every now development, from radiation equipment for comer treatment to now materials in furniture hes been incorporated. The stark white walls of old have siven way to pleasin, pastel murals, and carpets add to the generally hotel-like atmosphere. Communications and liaison are emphasised: pneumatic mossase-carriors, individual phones forkpatients to oall the nurse, and a staff.celling system. The Royal Marsden became the first hospital in this eaftntry to use ortificial radio-isotopes in the treatment of a patient. That was in 1948, but since then, as stronger links have been forsed between medicine And soiencw, e ner branch to promote..leer research was needed. After many delays, the present Sutton site vas squired in 1950. By 1960, plans had been drawn up, and the necessary funds made available. Graduelly the buildins, a combination of brick and concrete. rose from the chalk sub-soil. Nov, three years later, the nurses Are admiring the well-lit, ;, less-panelled wards; the two, huge six-million electron-volt linear accelerators for the cancer treatment, which ere buried deop in the radiation-proof ground. And in the laboratories, soientiets continue the endless quest to make the word comer loss terrifyins to men
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