OPERATION OF RARE SKILL
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A recent operation of rare skill performed at the Wellington Public Hospital resulted in the removal of a .22 brass cartridge case from the lung of a four-year-old boy, Grant MacKenzie, of Hastings. The boy was using it as a whistle on September 27, when he swallowed it. An X-ray at Hastings Hospital showed the case embedded in the lung and Grant was rushed’ to the Napier hospital, and, as an operation could not be performed there, thence to the Wellington hospital, where, after four unsuccessful operations the cartridge case was finally removed.- By this time the lung was considerably inflamed. Grant is now well on the way to* recovery and his parents have expressed the warmest appreciation to the doctors and nurses who fought for thg boy’s fife. • ?
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1947, Page 4
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