BABY BORN 10 WEEKS PREMATURELY
SURVIVAL BELIEVED LIKELY LONDON, Dec. 7. A ten weeks’ prematurely-born baby weighing only 20oz and measuring seven inches from head to toes will, it is believed, grow into a normal healthy child if all goes well in the next fortnight. The baby, swathed in cotton wool, is in an oxygen tent in a Southampton maternity home. The sister at the hospital said: “The medical authorities consider that it is almost impossible for a baby born more than two : months premature to live. Theoretically, the baby should not be alive, but this is her fourth day of existence.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 50, 8 December 1948, Page 5
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