BROKEN PLATE
MAN SWALLOWS TEETH
DIES AFTER OPERATION
(By Telegraph.—Press A—<v.T a ffri n y > OHEISTGHIIRGH, SOtfc July.
I Having swallowed, iia tipper setMrfj ! false teeth, Hairy Berron, aged 29., a, railway servant, cycled to the Chrut« church Hospital- Ha was -operated ttoj wis taken very iH and aied, ' ~
The deceased was a married atani ■with two children, and lived at 132, Estuary road, New Brighton. •At an inquest held before Mr. E."l>. Mosley, CoroneT, Mrs. Catherine Vaiwy, Herron said that her husband trore ma upper plate with four false teeth. -Tbn plate was broken and had* lost its buction, and the sides had jagged edges. On Thursday, following his usual cns« torn, he wore the plate to bed. Short* ly after midnight she heard her hiis« band coughing. He told.Tier that fce must have swallowed his teeth. After* attempting to dislodge them he went to a doctor, who told him to go to the Christehurch Hospital immediateljj. afe. Herron rode on his bicycle. 'He was operated on, and died later. :.
A post-mortem examination Trairordered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1932, Page 9
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175BROKEN PLATE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1932, Page 9
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