Show START RADIUM BANK London Institution Will Rent Precious Pre-cious Element to Scientists Promoters Experience Trouble In Obtaining Ob-taining Sufficient Quantity of CurativeYield Small LondonA response far beyond the expectations even of tho promoters of the scheme has attended tho Institution Institu-tion In London of n radium bank a placo whore that ultra preclous element ele-ment may bo stored In security and hired out to medical men scientists and others who wish to use It but cannot can-not afford tho 80 a milligram which Is Its present market price The actual locale of tho bank Is ultimately ul-timately to bo In tho neighborhood of Cavendish square In tho heart of doctorland but for tho present temporary t tem-porary + offices havo been opened In Moorgate street Hero a reporter found himself ono of a host of anxious inquirers alter too modern philosophers philoso-phers stone We nave been perfectly amazed said tho manager at tho stir that tho announcement has already caused although It was only a day ago I have been besieged by applicants principally of course by medical men for whoso use the bank Is being chief ly organized As you know tho enormous expense ex-pense ol radium Is and will bo for I some time tho great drawback In its uso both for medical and scientific purposes For an average operation some fifty milligrams arc needed costing about 4000 and It Is therefore there-fore only at one or two of the largo London hospitals that It can be used to any extent So a little body of men have do tided to establish this bank from which we shall let out radium st 200 for one days use of 100 milligrams and for each subsequent day at half per cent on tho value of tho amount used Securities will of course havo to be giver and It Is happily ono of the characteristics of radium that Its faculties arp to all Intents and purposes pur-poses Inexhaustible Apart from getting tho required radium continued the manager the whole thing Is supremely simple There Is no need of spacious strong rooms Half a million worth takes up no more space than a duchess tiara and wo shall only stock It to the value of 250000 But tho getting It Is the difficulty Hitherto the main source has boon tho pltchblendo from the Joachln Thai mine In Bohemia This yields one part In 3000000 but Is practically monopolized by Austria The dis covery ot radioactive autunltc nonbeing non-being worked by an English j company in the bed of a stream near Guarda In Portugal where miraculous cures used to happen not unconnected with tho radiumhas added to the supply but not to a very cheapening extent So far as England Itself Is concerned con-cerned there are two Cornish mines that have yielded a little but tho available supply of pure radium Is Intensely In-tensely limited owing to tho enormous enor-mous difficulty of extraction Although Al-though radium exists In air sea water and almost everywhere there Is hardly hard-ly a pure ounce In the world Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly ono of tho first things that t we shall have to do Is to set about finding new sources of supply As to our bank It will bo organized n organ-ized very much after the model of the similar Institution In Paris through which most of tho radium used In I England has hitherto come and ot other radium banks which are being established In New York Berlin and Vienna hUu |