OPERATION ON CHILD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 16

OPERATION ON CHILD.

INSTRUMENTS SENT BY ’PLANE. PEANUT*IN LUNG. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug 13. Special surgical instruments were rushed from New' Plymouth to Auckland by aeroplane to-day to be used in removing a peanut from the lung of a child which had been hurried to the city by motor-car from Whangarei. The operation was carried out successfully at the Mater Misericordiate Hospital by a member of tho hospital’s honorary staff. Only a few days previously the same instruments had been sent to New Plymouth by aeroplane for use in a similar operation there. At 7 o’clock to-day an Auckland doctor who owns the instruments, was advised that he would be required to attend the child from AVhangarei, a boy aged 2 years and 9 months. Immediately he put through an urgent call to the borrower, instructing him to place the instruments on the northbound Union Airways monoplane as air mail. The child arrived at the hospital at about 11 a.m. and an X-ray examination revealed that the peanut was blocking the lower part of the left lung. Nothing could be done, however, until the arrival of the instruments, the chief of which was a bronchoscope. The aeroplane reached Mangero at 3 p.m., and shortly afterwards tho instruments were being hurried to the hospital. The operation was performed at about 4 p.m. and occupied one minute. It was entirely successful and soon afterwards the child enjo3’cd a meal.