Abstract
An unusual and disturbing radium accident occurred in September 1949, at the Nottingham General Hospital. During the routine cleaning of a number of needles, an open dish of water in which the needles were being boiled was accidentally allowed to become nearly dry. Amongst the needles were several old ones in which the radium salt is packed directly into the outer platinum sheath. One such container, of 25 mg. content, apparently jumped out of the dish and was recovered after a search on the floor. It was then placed in a lead block with the eyelet protruding. Only after some 30 hours was it further discovered that the point of the needle had disappeared and that practically the whole of the contents of the needle were missing. During this period the room in which the incident occurred had been used routinely by a large number of people.
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