A frantic search of the ashes of the city incinerator ■in Budapest recently yielded a tube containing about £3500 worth .of radium which a woman §atient in a hospital had thrown away ecause it was burning her. It was several days after the tube was missed that the patient confessed she had thrown it in the hospital rubbish heap. When the rubbish was traced to the incinerator most of it had already been burned, but the tube and its precious contents survived.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20878, 10 June 1933, Page 12
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