Contaminated home isolated
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) SYDNEY, October 28. An American engineer and his wife were recovering in hospital today after their home was contaminated by radioactive strontium 90 from a broken industrial radioactivity measuring device. The police cordoned off the house in the fashionable harbourside suburb of Castlecrag to prevent other people being contaminated. The New South Wales Commissioner for Environmental and Special Health Services (Dr David Storey) said the material had been
spread around the house on the couple’s clothes and shoes. Officers of the Health Commission and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission today began decontaminating the house.
The couple were taken to the Royal North Shore Hospital for tests to see if they had swallowed or inhaled any radioactive material, which the police said remained active for 30 years. Dr W. A. Crawford, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission, said later that in the event of con. lamination there was no special treatment, but the radioactive particles would gradually work themselves out of the patient’s body.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33987, 30 October 1975, Page 9
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