GUARDING RADIUM
WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL DEPOSIT IN GRAVEL (Eire. Tul. Copyright—Uniti’d Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Rccd. noon. RUGBY, Nov. 6. A safe deposit 50ft. deep in Thames gravel under Westminster Hospital is being constructed for Ihe hospital's radium bombs and contents —six grammes of radium salts valued at between £30,000 and £40,000. Fifty feet of steel tubing lain, in diameter was sunk into gravel during the week-end. The Westminster Hospital radium supply will be brought back from a similar'well at the Royal Cancer Hospital, where il has been deposited since the outbreak of the war.
In future the radium bombs will be deposited in the tube each night and in the event of air raids this will enable a continuation of treatment by radium at Westminster Hospital by daylight.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 7 November 1939, Page 3
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