On this day in Yorkshire 1948
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Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary are to call in the help of an entomologist in an effort to identify a large spider which is thought to have bitten a Hunslet woman, 36-year-old Mrs. Edna Hanson, Peel Street, on her hand when she was taking bananas from a box at her husband’s greengrocery shop in Pearson Street, Hunslet, last night.
Though no puncture mark could be found on her hand, Mrs. Hanson was given anti-tetanus serum and an injection of penicillin at the Infirmary as a precaution.
Mrs. Hanson told a “Yorkshire Post” reporter last night:
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The spider ran under box and my husband was able to get it alive into a tumbler which he then sealed.
Afterwards a cocoon was found among other bananas in the box.
Mrs. Hanson said that the box of bananas, part of a consignment for Leeds, arrived in the city a few days ago and had since been kept in a ripening warehouse.
She thought the bananas had come from West Africa.
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