SAFE FROM RAIDS.
Radium Bombs In Well Under
London Hospital.
CONTINUE TREATMENT
British Official Wireless.
t Received 11.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, November •>
A safe deposit oOft deep in Thames ..ravel under Westminster Hospital is being constructed for the hospitals radium bombs and their contents—six • Tammes of radium salts, valued at between £30,000 and £40,000. Fifty feet of steel tubing. Inn in diameter, was sunk into the gravel during the weekend.
The Westminster Hospital radium supplv will be brought hack from a similar well at the Royal Cancer Hospital, where it has been deposited since the outbreak of war.
Jll future radium bombs will be il(.'posited in the tul>e each night, and, in tlie event of air raids, this will enable a continuation of treatment by radium at Westminster Hospital by daylight.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 7
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