MIDGET BABIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1927, Page 7

MIDGET BABIES.

ENGLAND'S I INFANT FED WITH AID OF CANARYS FEATHER. WFb.Htn UR AT RU'.TII. i LONDON. Apiil 12. 1 lie coinr<i\ ci -y coneorninp the woild's smallest ha by continues. The New- '/.<■ aI.iikl claim i> capped by a tiny LciJ-n child. Thi< child weighed lib at birth. ll*- , was fo<l with tlic aid oi a canary's feather. He is now four years <>ld. but ;ha« not yet reached lull hize fur Lis years. 1 The hoy conies of a family of small j babies. Two of his si»j ( .rs arc now ' almost fift in heipht. Tlu-v onlv wciphod 1 vlli wln-n tliev were l«om. AUCKLANDS CLAIM. j The world's record for a •w. ichi , liaby-- 'Jll» 2oz — which was claimed on i , Ix'h.i.f <tf an l.nplish infant. wa - J promptly shattered hv the information | that, a proud Auckland mother had a pill who w.iph.-d 1 nit 111. l'.oz at l.srth. jtho child now ten months of ape. 1 | 1 <»il. weight, and thriving amazir.ph j well at the Karitane Home. Now* comes another claim for th? j record a- far as Auckland i- coiicei tied. I a little ill v. ho is at j.resent ten j of ape. prow n and ot a\crape hciuii'..) 1 At the t.ine of her Firth. which ti>"k ; j place j;,.. A'lckhind ITo-pilal. sh. ! ■ wciphod lr.it C,"Z. From inquities that | | have been mr.de. it was learned that thej J infant'* w.ipht was a matter of penoral | -urprise at the time, althonph nothinpj. | in the nature of n record was claimed. |, I seeinp that America—usually :lie place 1 for bip thinps—could boa c t a healthy j infant that turned the scales at ..unices, and it is pencrally l»elievcd that this istill the world's record for small chil-j ; •Iten. i ; Apparently the 21b child—or therealxiuts—is more common than mo-t ' , people imagine. There is a I'onsonhv mother with a pirl now 12 vcar-; of , | who after her birth weiphed a nc.it ' 211 i. clothes included, and was 12 inches in lcnptli. Today the j.'iil has health, and is in the fourth •! ndard at school. NGARUAWAHIA'S CLAIM. 'T claim to po one hr-Iter." writes a : corresjK.ndent. "A baby pirl born at i j Xparuawahia weighed one and a half ! pounds, and. to balance the weight, it i was necessary to put a packet of hairpins and two safety-pins alonp with j the baby. As a matter of fact, its | weipht was just tinder one and a half ' pounds." The correspondent says that I the baby lived, and has sent to thej ' "Star" the names of two medical men ' I who attended the infant. ! J EKETAHTTNA'S EXHIBIT. i <T.v T<-]ejrnph.— Own C(.rros-poncicrjt.) KKF.TAin.NA, this day. j The ]uca] Plunkot muse states that i a baby lxirn in the Kketahuna district 1 I weighed 111» 1 Zc~7.. It was reared on I ' J'hmket methods, under the super\ ision j «• f the local do< tor. and is now. at three i years, one of the healthiest and i ' l«onnic-t. children. Another at Pahia- i t u.i weighed 21b at six weeks. It is now a healthy child. At the Karitane Harris Hospital there is the record i •if a habv lib IJo 7 at ihreo weeks a-i,j ! I it was now Ine \cars of and otii'.e j normal.