24-hour Vigil On Rawson Quads

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30940, 22 December 1965, Page 21

24-hour Vigil On Rawson Quads

Inland Pratt AMoetattoa) ! j AUCKLAND, Df 21. The eight and a half weeks preltare quadruplets born on Tuesday rrrninrt Mr and Mrs H. D. Rawson of Nelson armoring carefully tended in the premature unmt the National Women’s Hospital.

**As the babies were ao gmall at birth their condition is sttM causing some concern,” raid the medical superintendent. Dr R. A, Warren, today. “But" be added, “every day they go through gives a little more hope.” The babies are being given the same treatment si that received by the Lawson quintuplets and every other premature baby born at the hospital. ‘ This involves a 24-bour vigil, care in up-txxtote incubators and feeding by tube. At birth the first-born. a boy. weighed 2hb 14oz, the two

girls who followed weighed 31b 6oz each, and the youngest. a boy, was 2tt> 13oc. The condition of Mrs Sally Rawson, 29-year-oid wife of a surgeon on the staff at Nelson Hospital who is ate> in private practice, is satisfaqi tory today. 7i One of the first to conges 1

ujate the psreafwm Mrs Shuley Ann Lorin, mother of the quins, J The Rnwsonomvedy here two cMriren Jri aged five and a boy ageyur.