CHILD WITH FIVE PINS IN STOMACH.
NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec.' 8. Swallowing five pins while playing this afternoon, Lynette Anne Russell,, the four-}rear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. ^Russell, New Plymouth, was rusked to hospital where an X-ray revealed the pins in the stomach. Her condition was reported late tonight to be satisfactory. The mishap oeeurred at- the home of the child 's grandmother, Mrs. j F. Brooks. While Mrs. Brooks was oecupied with sewing, the child placed some pips in the cap of a fountain pen and put it in lier mouth. ^As she did so sfie had an attack of whooping cough. She ejected the cap from her mouth* but the cough dislodged the pins and she Bwaflowed iheia.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 December 1949, Page 5
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