An unusual story in Dundee’s papers about a woman who died on 27th October 1912, warning readers not to fall foul of the same fate – and to watch out for false teeth! Full story below:
Warning from a Tragedy
A Lochee woman met her death under tragic circumstance on Tuesday, expiring after swallowing her artificial teeth. The wife of Michael Reekie, timekeeper at the Linoleum Works, Mrs Janet Wood or Reekie, was seated at dinner with her husband shortly after one o’clock, when, along with a piece of morning roll and a spoonful of broth, she accidentally swallowed her top set of teeth. Complaining of acute pain, she requested that she should be taken to the Royal Infirmary, and this was immediately done. At the Infirmary the coin-catcher was tried without avail for over an hour, and later Mrs Reekie, after being x-rayed, was taken to the operating theatre to have her throat opened. Before receiving chloroform, however she died. On Monday it was noticed that her teeth were loose, the upper set falling out altogether. A resident in the district for many years, Mrs Reekie was well known, and her cheery temperament made her a popular tenant. She was in her fifty-eighth year.
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