i A frantic search of the ashes of the city incinerator in Budapest recently yielded a tube containing about £3500 worth of radium which a women patient in a hospital had thrown away because it was burning her. It was several days after the tube was missed that the patient confessed that she had thrown it in the hospital rubbish heap. When the rubbish was traced to the incinerator most of it had already been burned, but the tube and its precious contents survived.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21986, 22 June 1933, Page 2
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