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- ↑ Report, Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, June, 1931. H.M. Stationery Office. 1931. p. 260. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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- ↑ Report of the Health Survey and Development Committee ... 1946. p. 75. Retrieved 8 July 2016.