PHYSICIST KILLED
In Charge Of Cancer Unit
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) HAMILTON, June 21. The use of the Waikato Hospital’s new cancer unit could be delayed because of the sudden death of the newly - appointed medical physicist on Saturday afternoon.
Mr Charles George Howard Tripp, aged 35, was knocked down by a car at the main entrance of the hospital on Friday morning and died in the hospital the following day. Mr Tripp had been appointed by the Waikato Hospital Board to work on the installation and use of a cobalt unit for therapy in the hospital’s new cancer block. He began work last Monday. The plant cannot be used without a physicist, the board’s secretary (Mr J. H. Chapman) said today. “Physicists with the required knowledge of cancer units are very scarce,” he said. It is probable that the board will have to advertise overseas. Mr Tripp was married with two children. He came to Hamilton from a post with the Dunedin Hospital.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30783, 22 June 1965, Page 18
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