Quadruplets To Surgeon’s Wife

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 22

Quadruplets To Surgeon’s Wife

(New Zealand Preee Aeeociation)

AUCKLAND, Dec. 20.

Quadruplets—-two girls, two boys—were born tonight at the National Women’s Hospital, Epsom, to Mr and Mrs H. D. Rawson, of Nelson.

The babies were rushed to the special care premature unit in the hospital immediately after they were born between 6 p.m. and 6.11 pan. The medical superintendent of the hospital. Dr. R. A Warren, said last night that the medical consultants were “a little concerned at the condition of the four.”

Mrs Sally Rawson, aged 29, the wife of a surgeon who is on the staff of the Nelson Hospital and also has a private practice, came to Auckland recently to be close to expert pediatric cere. Up to a week ago it was thought that Mrs Rawson would have twins. It was not until a final X-ray was taken that the quadruplets were revealed. The first boy weighed 21b ]4ox, the girts both Sib 6oz. and the youngest boy 21b 13os. No names had been chosen for the quadruplets, eaid Mr Rawson tonight. Ho said the family had recently added a room to its house at TO Stole? avenue, Nelson, In expectation of the twins. “Now, unfortunately, we will hove to look for somewhere else to live," he said. "Our present home will not be big enough" The Rawsone already have two children, a girt aged five and a boy aged tour. One of the first to offer congratulations to the parents of the quadruplets was Mrs

Shirley Ann Lawson, the mother of the quintuplets born in the same hospital on July 27. “1 hope everything will go well for Mr and Mrs Rawson," she Mid. “It is a coincidence that our names are so similar. “I expect Mr and Mrs Rawson are both overjoyed."