PERILS OF PAULINE - 18-MONTH-OLD MISSES DEATH FOR THIRD TIME . Eighteen-months-old PAULINE LODER - of Elton-Road . Bishopston, Bristol , narrowly escaped death for the third time in her young life last night . She fell nearly 20 feet from her bedroom window , landed on some concrete steps and fractured her skull . When she was 14 days-old she underwent through a serious operation for peritonitis , A few month later she again went into hospital with bronchial pneumonia . '' She is lucky to be alive '' doctors told her mother . Pauline crawled through the window last night while Mrs Loder was

PERILS OF PAULINE - 18-MONTH-OLD MISSES DEATH FOR THIRD TIME .   Eighteen-months-old PAULINE LODER - of Elton-Road . Bishopston, Bristol , narrowly escaped death for the third time in her young life last night . She fell nearly 20 feet from her bedroom window , landed on some concrete steps and fractured her skull . When she was 14 days-old she underwent through a serious operation for peritonitis , A few month later she again went into hospital with bronchial pneumonia . '' She is lucky to be alive '' doctors told her mother .  Pauline crawled through the window last night while Mrs Loder was Stock Photo
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22 January 1949

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PERILS OF PAULINE - 18-MONTH-OLD MISSES DEATH FOR THIRD TIME . Eighteen-months-old PAULINE LODER - of Elton-Road . Bishopston, Bristol , narrowly escaped death for the third time in her young life last night . She fell nearly 20 feet from her bedroom window , landed on some concrete steps and fractured her skull . When she was 14 days-old she underwent through a serious operation for peritonitis , A few month later she again went into hospital with bronchial pneumonia . '' She is lucky to be alive '' doctors told her mother . Pauline crawled through the window last night while Mrs Loder was preparing her cot , she tore the curtains as she fell , hit a scullery roof and then rolled of on to the steps . She was still conscious as she was taken to hospital , her parent were told today: '' She is a little better '' PICTURE SHOWS:- MERRY AND BRIGHT , 18-month-old PAULINE LODER is seen I hospital at Bristol a few hours after her third miraculous escape . 22 January 1949

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