Student Nurse deals with her first emergency give kiss to life to four pigs: Pretty 19 year old student nurse, Hazel Cruddace, dealt with her first emergency when she gave the kiss of life to four pigs. Her emergency ward was the pigsty in her own back yard. And the drama started when her mother's sow, Susie, gave birth to four piglets which were not breathing. For almost half an hour Hazel, a student nurse for three months, administered the kiss of life to the piglets and three recovered. Hazel, who is recovering at her home, Drumburgh Farm, near Carlisle, from an appendix operation, said ''I would rather have been giving the kiss of life to anyone but pigs. But at the time they needed it. Without it they would all have died. I never thought about it being unpleasant, I just followed what I have been taught at the hospital where I am training. I did everything to the book, just as you do for humans. Hazel's father runs the dairy farm, but her mother, Mrs. Anna Cruddace, keeps the pigs as a hobby. Yesterday the piglets were in fine form.
Photo measures 7 x 9.75 inches.
Photo is dated 11-11-1970.
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