HOSPITAL RADIUM SUPPLY
SAFE UNDER THAMES GRAVEL
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]
(Recd. Nov. 7, 10.45 a.m.). RUGBY, November 6
A safe deposit, 50 feet deep in Thames gravel under Westminster Hospital, is being constructed for the hospital’s radium bombs and their contents—six grammes of radium salts valued at between £30,000 and £40,000. Fifty feet of steel tubing, 15 inches in diameter, was sunk into the gravel during the week-end. The Westminster Hospital radium supply will be brought back from a similar well at the Rosal Cancer Hospital, where it had been deposited since the outbreak of war. In future, the radium bombs will be deposited in the tube each night, and, in the event of air-raids, this will enable the continuation of treatment by radium at Westminster Hospital, by daylight.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1939, Page 8
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