GIRL’S SCALP TORN OFF
HOPE FOR REPLACING IT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.-—Copyright. Melbourne, Jan. 30. In replacing the scalp of Catherine Thorp, whose hair caught in a machine at a cereal factory, pulling off her scalp, the doctors performed a most delicate operation which, if successful, will be a most remarkable surgical feat. It ie hoped to set the scalp by skin grafting. The girl is still conscious.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1930, Page 13
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