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The Past as Prologue
40 years ago
State Health Department Offers Radium Service
October 10, 1961
A 5 m.g. radium capsule, on a silver wire, disappeared on the way from the O.R.
back to its box in the radiology department in one of our New Jersey hospitals
a week ago and through the help of the Bureau of Radiological Health of the
State Department of Health, it was recovered. The Department sent a crew of
seven men to the hospital with Geiger counters and other apparatus. Two of them
spent four hours screening the hospital's rubbish dump in an adjourning
[adjoining] town, on the chance the capsule had gotten into a rubbish can and
the others went through the hospital foot by foot, all without result. Then a
Land camera picture of another capsule was taken and Bureau personnel began
asking employees if they had even seen anything like it in the hospital. A
housekeeping employee immediately recognized the object and the search was
over. She had found it on the floor in a corridor, put it in her pocket, took
it home and expected to use it as a fishing lure.
Source: New Jersey Hospital Association Reporter. Vol. XV, No. 16, October 18,
1961, pp. 4.
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