MILLION TO ONE CHANCE
Attending the outpatients' department of South Sydney Hospital is an 8 year old boy who has defied death, with the odds one million to one against him. Suffering from "blue heart," the boy, by all medical standards, should not have survived the first six months of life. When the boy Avas born in the South Sydney Women's Hospital, it was found that a valve in the heart had failed to close. , This condition affects the blood stream and . results in the patient's body assuming a navy blue colour, particularly pronounced in the face. Up to two years of life is generally regarded as the maximum period of survival. * But the boy, at eight years, attends school and, with certain limitations lives a normal life. "This lad has brought off the million-to-one chance of giving," said a Macquarie Street specialist. "The heart condition prevents the blood in the veins, which is blue', from mixing properly with that in the arteries, which is red."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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166MILLION TO ONE CHANCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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