£1,000 OF RADIUM
CARRIED FOR 38 MILES. A patient inadvertently carried off —iu his nose—-£lOOO worth of radium from the Radium Institute in Manchester, recently. Mr Edwards, an official of the Dolgelly Council, had been suffering from an affliction of the nose, and had undergone treatment at the Institute. After he had left in his car to drive back to Dolgelly it was discovered that a radium pack was still in his nose. A message was sent to Chester (38 miles away), asking the police to intercept Mr Edwards. A constable in the Boughton.district recognized the car and stopped it. Mr Edwards went to the Chester Royal Infirmary where the resident casualty officer removed the radium. If the needle had been left in the man’s nose any length of time it would have proved fatal. Radium costs about £15,000 a gramme.
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Southland Times, Issue 21264, 10 December 1930, Page 12
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