| Show START london institution will rent precious element to scientists promoters experience trouble in ob kalning sufficient quant ty of curative yield small london A response tar beyond the expectations even of the promoters of the has amended the alon in london of a radium bank a place where that ultra pre lous ele ment may be stored in security and hired out U medical falen scientists and others who wish to use it but can not afford the 80 a milligram which Is its present market price the actual locale of the bank Is ul ti to be in the neighborhood of cavendish in the heart of doc torland but cr the present tern horary offices have been opened in Moor gate street here a reporter found himself one of a host of anxious inquirers after the modern pher stone we nave been perfectly amazed said the manager at the stir that the announcement has already caused although it was only a day ago 1 have been besieged by applicants principally of u by medical men tor whose use the bank Is being chief ly organized As you know the enormous ex pense ot radium Is and will be for some time the great drawback in its use both tor medical and scientific purposes for an average operation some milligrams are needed costing about 4 and it Is there tore only a one or two of the large london that it can be used to any extent so a little body of have de aided to establish this bank from which we shall let out radium at tor one days use of milligrams and for each subsequent day at halt per cent on the value ol 01 the amount used will of course have to be giver tend it is happily one of the characteristics of radium that its arp to all intents and pur poses inexhaustible apart om getting the required radium continued the manager the whole th ng Is supremely simple there Is no need of spacious strong rooms halt a million worth takes up no more space than a duchess tiara and we shall only stock it to the value of but the getting it Is the difficulty hitherto the main source has been the pitchblende from the thai mine in bohemia this yields one part in 3 but Is practically iced by austria the dig covery ot radioactive 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 added to the supply but not to a very cheapening extent so far as england itsell Is con berned there are two cornish mines that have yielded a little but the available supply ot pure radium Is in tensely limited owing to the enor IDOUS difficulty of extraction al though radium exists in air sea water and almost everywhere there Is hard ly a pure ounce in the world un one ot the first things that we shall have to do Is to set about finding new sources of supply As to our bank it will be organ iced very much after the model of the similar institution in paris through which most of the radium used in angland has hitherto come and 0 other radium banks which are being established in new york berlin and vienna |
