RADIUM FOR CANCER
[CONSIGNMENT TO BRISBANE Radium worth £4700 was landed in Brisbane recently, Commonwealth officials taking charge of it and transferTing it to the radon laboratory at tho "Lni\ersity of Queensland. The consignmentis one of 475 millegranimes. It will be used for establishing a cancer treatment service. . The radium was later carefully stored in a strongroom in the university library building. There it will be used in the production of radon, a verv '?A t^« aß^°SS^r Sing P. r °P erti «* equal f °J 8
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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86RADIUM FOR CANCER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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