THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH. 12, 1937.
9-year-old Girl Growing a New Leg
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Doctor's Miracle of Surgery Saves An Amputation a
"Will be Exciting to Walk and Dance Again”
By ANDREW KIDD
London, March 1.
A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl is making surgical history
at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, E., by growing a new leg.
Yesterday 20 or 30 famous surgeons were gathered round her bed discussing the "miracle."
The little patient, fairhafred, He could do no more: 11 was No- brown-eyed Ella Hunter, of ture's turn.
Stoke Newington, was admitted
to the hospital suffering from an injury to the leg. She had been hurt while playing..
She was found to have osteomyelitis of the femur; her thigh-bone was infected by a deadly bone disease. Surgeois found the bone had warted to a pulp. Amputation was the only normal cure.
But a brilliant surgeon decide to try a daring experiment.
And Nature finished the work. To-day the little girl, after 19 weeks in hospital, has a brand new femur-firm, straight, and strong.
"At one time," an official at the hospital told me, "there seemed no hope of saving her leg. It was d case where complete amputation of the infected limb is the normal pro- ecdure.
WHAT IT MEANS
"In about three weeks Eila should be able to leave the hospital. We
why, able to walk, run, and dance.
lle removed completely the bone-expect she will be normal in every shaft of the femur from the hip Joint to the knee. Te left behind the periosteum-Or thin fisquic which covers the actuál bone,
Infinite skill was needed, since had the periosteum been, damaged, the
leg would have been lost.
But the direased bone was taken nway and the outer covering--which tins bone-forming properties-left intact.
NEW CELLS FORMED
Slowly the periosteum begun 10 form cells, which multiplied, enlel- fled, and knitted themselves together. Ella Hunter was growing a new leg. Each week the surgeon anxiously examined the X-ray photographs of the leg.
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"The success of this experiment means that amputation may But we believe that the experiment unnecessary In many similar cases. would only be successful with child pallents,"
Ella, as she lies in bed with her leg in splints, has become known ДУ Опе of the most cheerful patients in the hospital. She reads storics to the other children.
She eagerly awaits visits from her parents,. her five sisters, and two brothers.
'Mout want to get well soon. It's going to
of all," Ella told
me, "I be exciting to walk on my new leg."
Ragnhild Hveger, 16-years-old Danish girl, who recently swam 200 metres back crawl in record time of 2.41, and registered her seventhi world record. She is probably the world's best woman swimmer to-day.
Coronation Revelry
COLOUR-FLASHING
FOUNTAINS
ILLUMINATED fountains will flash in colour up, and down the country-if a plan put forward to instal them in time for the Coronation is taken up by local councils.
They have been designed by the Office of Works and provide for jets consuming a trifling amount of power for lighting and pumping.
The plan is given in the current issue of The Engineer, where an article states: "A small illuminated fountain need not
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group of jets will deliver about 300 allons per minute. The power for pumping taken at the nozzles about 3 h.p. and four 500-watt lamps taking a couple of kw, would illu- minute the jets even in daylight,
Will Queen Elizabeth wear three or four
ropes of pearls with her Coronation robes?
The Queen give special eltlings to The Office of Works design pro- Mr. Langford Jones and to Mr. Percy Metcalfe for the design of Coronation medals, yet the two designs, shown at the Royal Mint differ: Mr. Langford pictures the Queen wearing Three strings of pearls; Mr. Metcalfe four.
EVEN IN DAYLIGHT
RAMSAY MAY GO
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By A Political Correspondent
THEN Mr. Baldwin retires from the Premiership after the Coronation, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, National Labour Lord President of the Council, is expected to go, too.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who will succeed as Premier, intends to make)
big reshuffle of ollees.
Several Cabinet Ministers will re- tire. A number of junior Ministers will be given different offices from those they now hold.
ALLEGED PLOT TO KIDNAP "QUINS"
Toronto, Mar, 1. Five policemen instead of three
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An amcial of the Mint said that both designs have now received Royal approval, the King and Queen having
at several times to euch artist.
SLIGHT SMILE
A new departure is a prototype pattern, offered to the trade for In-
neduls corporation in
issued by public bodies. One side only hus been prepared, bearing Mr. Long- ford's design.
The Queen's profile appears at a lower level than the King's, to show more of the Queen's features. She Itas * barely perceptible smile.
One of the Ministers whose re-are guarding the "quins"" nursery tirement 13 expected-at least at Callander to-day as the result of from his present office of War rumours of a
of a plot to kidnap at least The oMcial Coronation medal, by Minister is Mr. A. Duff Cooper,
two of the five little girls.
Mr. Metcalfe, will be struck at the it is' expected that Lord Chancellor The authorities do not attach Mint alone. It will not be ready un- Hallsham, who has been seriously ill, much importance to the report, Mr..til April. will offer his resignation. If it is Arthur W. Roebuck, Attorney- In accordance with precedent, the accepted, Home Secretary Sir John General for Ontario, declared to-day.medal gives on the obverse the head Simon may take his
place.
on the "But," he added, "we are taking no of the King, with the Queen's on the
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