TUBE OF RADIUM SAVED
TAKEN TO IN CINERATOR. A frantic search of the ashes of the city incinerator dn Budapest recently yielded a tube containing about £3500 worth of radium which a woman patient in a hospital had thrown away beeause it was burning her. It was several days after the tube was missed th'at the patient confessed she had thrown it in the hospital rubbish heap. When thel rubbish was triaeed to the incinerator, it had already been hurned, but the tube and its precious contents survived.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 562, 20 June 1933, Page 7
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88TUBE OF RADIUM SAVED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 562, 20 June 1933, Page 7
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