MISTAKE AT HOSPITAL
INTO THE RUBBISH BUCKET VALUABLE RADIUM LOST. Electric Telegraph-— frees Association NAPIER, This Day. An unusual case of radium being thrown away was related at a meeting of th'o Napier Hospital Board. It was reported that alter the nurse had taken radium- from a patient's lace, she inadvertently threw it into tile rubbish bucket, after which it was consigned to the destructor before the mistake was discovered . It is honed that the- precious, substance will b-e recovered from the ashes by a New Zealand process. The radium concerned is worth approximately £2OO.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10889, 17 July 1928, Page 6
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