PARCEL OF RADIUM.
RECEIVED IN AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 22. Delivery of a parcel of radium weighing 300 milligrammes, tho value of which is estimated at £4600, has been taken by tho Auckland Hospital Board, and as soon as Dr. Neil McDougall (the board's radium specialist) returns from Australia, patients requiring treatment will be able to receive it at the hospital instead of being under the necessity of going to the Christchurch Hospital, which hitherto has taken all such Auckland cases.
The precious therapeutic agent came to Auckland by registered parcel post in a small lead-lined wooden box, four inches in length and two and a-lialf inches deep. The radium cannot be seen, for it is divided into doses of varying strength in containers of silver, gold, platinum and an alloy of platinum and copper. The division of the parcel thus makes the radium more easily available, according to tho class of case to be treated. i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 14
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159PARCEL OF RADIUM. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 14
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