COBALT UNIT AT HOSPITAL
RADIUM DEPARTMENT TO BE EXTENDED
Tenders for the construction af additions to the X-ray therapy department at the Christchurch Public Hospital, where the new cobalt 60 cancer unit will be housed, have been called by the North Canterbury Hospital Board. It is expected that the work will be completed early next year. The contract time is six months.
The present radium department will be extended into the courtyard on the south side, and will take up almost all the present courtyard space. The building, when alterations are completed, will cover about 2500 square feet. It will contain the cobalt 60 room, the planning and moulding room, the medical officers’ room, and a waiting room, as well as other services. The building will be of reinforced concrete, timber, and brick, and there will be some novel features, One of the walls will be 3ft 6in thick, and there will be heavy lead protection on the doors. Dr. A. M. Goldstein, assistant radiotherapist at the hospital, will leave in October for Canada and Britain, where he will study the latest devolpments in X-ray therapy.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27739, 17 August 1955, Page 10
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