THIS BABY MUST NOT LAUGH
Shirley, a seven-month-old baby in the Children’s Hospital in London, must not cry, laugh, or suck her thumb. If she did she would shatter the marvellous work of a surgeon who has removed the disfigurement of a hare lip. For the past fortnight, dark-haired, brown-eyed Shirley has been lying in a cot with the lower part of her face strapped in an ingenious bandage which keeps her mouth continually open. The sister of the ward told a "Sunday Chronicle” representative: “We have to see that Shirley doesn’t cry or laugh. That might undo all the surgeon has done. “And we have to be careful that she doesn’t suck her thumb. That is why her arms are kept rigid with cardboard splints.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VI (Supplement)
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126THIS BABY MUST NOT LAUGH Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VI (Supplement)
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