MOST LETHAL POISON
DANGERS OF RADIUM.
STRINGENT PRECAUTIONS URGED PENALTY OF CARELESSNESS. TJnited Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, December 8. Viscount Lee (chairman of the National Radium Commission), delivering the Sylvanus Thompson: lecture, declared that radium was a most lethal and dangerous poison. Its importation and sale should he prohibited except under special license. The world, he said, now possessed 500 grammes, worth £7,500,000. About a million pounds' worth was in Britain, of which a third was controlled by the National Commission. Viscount . Lee detailed numerous cases of horrible deaths in factories as a result of the careless use of luminous paint. Eadium water, which was widely advertised in America, was a deadly beverage, though at first its effects were stimulating.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 52, 10 December 1932, Page 5
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