NEEDLE TOURS FOR 12 MONTHS

Shannon News, 11 October 1927, Page 3

NEEDLE TOURS FOR 12 MONTHS

JOURNEYS FROM GIRL'S FOOT TO MOUTH. LONDON, July 29. A itm.irkable story of a broken needle travelling through a girl's body from foot to head comes from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. In June last year Miss Dora Watkinson, a maid at Westley Hall, and a daughter of the village blacksmith, trod on a darning needle which entered her right foot and broke off. The foot was X-rayed. She felt no ill effects, and no more was thought of the needle.

A few days ago she felt a scratch on her tongue. Placing a finger in her mouth she withdrew half an inch of broken needle which was emerging from between two teeth in the left lower jaw.

Nurse King, of Westley Hall, who has been attending the girl, said that night that, the broken needle had boon travelling about the maid's body for twelve months.

"Unfortunately," she said, "Dcra threw the broken needle into the fire immediately she drew it from her mouth. It would have been of great interest, and perhaps help, too, to medical men had the piece of needle been saved. ~

"Dora felt no ill effects after she extricated the needle from her mouth, and she carried on with her duties. She cannot be seen to-night, however, because she is suffering from slight injuries received in a cycling accident last night."