RADIUM IN DUSTBIN
FOUND AMONG ASHES How radium worth £BO was rescued aftfer it had been thrown into the dustbin and the incinerator was revealed by an official of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. A patient was given radium treatment by means of a small plaque strapped with adhesive plaster to his arm. An attendant removed the plaster and the radium and placed them in a basin while he answered an urgent call to another patient. Another attendant, seeing what was apparently discarded plaster, placed it in the dustbin for incineration. The loss was not discovered until after the contents of the dustbin had been burned in the hospital incinerator. The hospital radiologist suggested that the ashes should be searched, as radium would not burn, so the whole of the clinker was removed to the physics laboratory, where tests revealed the presence of radium. When the clinker was broken up with great care the radium plaque was discovered intact.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 7
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