WOMAN WEIGHING 50 STONE CREATES PROBLEM
Received Thursday, 11.0 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 29. Doctors in Joliet, lllinois, attemyted vainly today to disGo'vef wimthh'r a woma-.. i ghing 50 stonej liad suf: fered a — . -ared hip when she ieil out of xl-rays couid not p&netrate her iiesh to photograph fief hones. The woman is Mrs. Elizabeth Ehner, a widow, who has been bedridden 20 years, with elb^hantikSiS. The police said Ivlrs. Ebhfer ireq.ueju.tly fell out of a speciaily 66nstructed bed and they regarded it as routine when summoned to lift her back la'st night. A doctor told them, howevbr, that he feared she had b'rdkexl a, hip and would nave to go to hospital. Eight policemeil, after great e&'ort§, moved- her to the front door, ahd then found that the police anibulanee would be too small tci carry hfer. Tne Police Commissioner then contacted an undertaker who sent a heaiSe. Ten more police were called tp lift Mrs. Ebner into the venicle. When the hearse reached tbe hospital five attendants helped put the woman oh two beds placed side by side btxt the beds collapseti. Mrs. Ebner was finally placed on a speciaily eo'nstructed fracturfe bed. The doctors will try for more X-rays tomorrow.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1947, Page 5
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