Show START raft RADIUM JL mita adnum BANK london institution will rent pr precious e element to scientists promoters experience trouble in obtaining sufficient quantity of curative yield small london A response far for beyond the expectations expectatIon a even of the promoters of the scheme has attended the institution in london of a radium bank a place where that ultra previous ele ci ant may be stored in security and hired out to medical men scientists and others who wish to use it but cai cair not afford the 80 a milligram which is its present market price the actual locate of 0 the bank Is ultimately ti to bo be in the neighborhood of cavendish square in the heart of doc torland but for tho the present temporary offices have been opened in Moor bloor gate street here a reporter lound found himself one of a host of anxious inquirers atter after the modern philosophers stone we nave been perfectly amazed said the manager at the stir that tho announcement has already caused although it was only bialy a day ago I 1 have been besieged by applicants principally of course by medical men for whose use the bank la Is being chiefly organized As you know the enormous expense ot of radium Is and will be for somo some time the great drawback in tta its use both for medical and scientific purposes for an average operation some afif eltty ty milligrams are needed costing about and it is therefore only a at one or two of the large london bc that it can be used to any extent so bo a little body of men have decided to establish this bank from which we shall let out radium at for one days use of milligrams and for each subsequent day at halt per cent on the value of the amount used will of course have to bo be giver given and it Is happily one of the characteristics of radium that its faculties arp are to all intents and purposes inexhaustible apart from getting the required radium continued the manager the whole thing la Is supremely simple there is no need of spacious strong rooms halt a million worth takes up no morel apace than a duchess tiara and we shall only stock it to the value of but the getting it if Is the difficulty hitherto the main source has been the pitchblende from the joachin thai mine in Doh bohemia emla this yields one part in but Is practically monopolized by austria the dis covery ot 01 radio radioactive active now being worked by an english company in the bed of a stream near guarda in portugal where miraculous cures used to happen not unconnected with the radium has baa added to the supply but not to a very cheapening extent so tar as as england itself Is concerned ned there are two cornish mines that have yielded a little but the availably supply lyof ot pure radium la Is intensely limited owing to we tho enormous difficulty of extraction although radium exists anair in air sea water and almost everywhere there Is hardi ly a pure ounce in the world undoubtedly one of the first things that we shall have to do is to set about finding new sources of supply As to our bank it will bo be organized very mu chafter the model of the similar institution in parts paris through which most of the radium used in england has hit hitherto berto come and of other radium banks which aro are being established lh iu new york berlin ands and vienna |