RADIUM AS INVESTMENT.
HOSPITALS' GILT-EDGED SECCBITY. Theri> is no more pornjaaent way jn which money can be invested thai. in the purchase of radium, it was stated, at a meeting of the governors of the Middlesex Hospital. Prince Alexander of Teek spoke of tlie encouraging resultsobtained at the hospital from tlio uso of radium in the. treatment of cancerous disease. In order, therefore, that tho staff should have a sufficient quantity for their needs, tho governors had decided to ask sanction to the withdrawal of £1000 from the canital fund of the hospital for tho purchase of radium. He had also'asked the council of King Edward's Hospital Fund to consider whether they could purchase a quantity of _radium and allow nil tho London hospitals to utilise the emanations which could be collected from it.
' Sir Alfred Pcnrco Gould, president of tho clinical section of tho Rival College of Medicine, said that the purchase of radium was not an expenditure of money, but an investment of money. Radium did not got poorer by giving off its emanation.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 8
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176RADIUM AS INVESTMENT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 8
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