SAFETY PIN IN BABY’S THROAT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9370, 12 February 1909, Page 7

SAFETY PIN IN BABY’S THROAT.

Giving evidence at St. Pancras at the inquest on her six weeks’ old daughter, Mary Horrod, wife of a Stepney labourer, said while her niece was attending to the baby a safety-pin dropped from her blouse into the infant’s mouth. They could not extract it, nor were the authorities at Shad well Hospital any more successful. So it was .removed to University Hospital. There the X-rays showed the pin in the throat. An operation was performed, and the pin was removed, but the baby died. Dr. Clayton, of University College Hospital, said a post-mortem showed that an abscess set up by the point of the pin had penetrated the windpipe. Death was due to pneumonia following the injury. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death.”