WHISTLE SWALLOWED
SMALL BOY'S EXPERIENCE OPERATION PERFORMED [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Tuesday In the Wellington Hospital is a boy whose life was endangered by a small metal whistle. On Monday evening the whistle was removed from the boy's lung, where it had lain deeply embedded after he had swallowed it while riding his bicycle. The boy swallowed the whistle ten days ago. Yesterday, when the boy was walking up hill and breathing heavily exertion made him cough..From within come the muffled sound of a whistle. He was rushed to hospital, an X-ray examination was made and a specialist operated immediately, removing the whistle. The boy is now progressing favourably.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 10
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