RADIUM BOMBS
SAFE STORAGE IN LONDON FIFTY FEET DEEP IN THAMES GRAVEL. CONTINUATION OF TREATMENT ASSURED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, November 6. A safe 'deposit fifty feet deep in Thames gravel under the Westminster Hospital is being constructed for the hospital’s radium bombs and contents —six grammes of radium salts, valued at between £3O 000 and £40,000. Fifty feet of steel tubing fifteen inches in diameter was sunk into the gravel during the weekend. The Westminster Hospital radium supply will be brought back from a similar well at the Royal Cancer Hospital, where it has been deposited since the outbreak of war. In future radium bombs will be deposited in the Tube each night and in the event of air raids this will enable the continuation of treatment by radium at the Westminster Hospital by daylight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 4
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141RADIUM BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 4
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