SWALLOWED WHISTLE
WELLINGTON BOY CYCLIST,
OPERATION NECESSARY.
[Per Press Association. — Covyn.aht.] WELLINGTON, This Day.
A twelve-year-old boy who is now lying in the Wellington Hospital was in the habit when riding his bicycle of holding a small whistle between his lips, using it as a warning signal. Ten days ago he was pedalling along when he gulped and swallowed the whistle. He hurried home and was given an emetic, but the whistle did not reappear.
Days passed until Monday, when the boy was walking up a hill and breathing heavily. The exertion made him cough. From within came a muffled “peep.” He hurried home and was rushed to hospital. An X-ray was taken and a specialist operated immediately, removing the whistle within an hour of the boy’s admission. He is now progressing favourably. The whistle is an inch long and about a quarter of an inch in diameter at the widest part. Had it not whistled internally it might have cost the boy his life.
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Northern Advocate, 27 June 1935, Page 7
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165SWALLOWED WHISTLE Northern Advocate, 27 June 1935, Page 7
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