SIAMESE TWINS
Condition Said To Be Better
(N.Z. Frets Assn—Copyright)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.
Doctors say Siamese twins, bom on Christmas Day and separated by surgery, are showing steady improvement. They say, however, that Sheila and Lisa Mantonya are still not out of danger. The twins’ 20-year-old mother, Mrs Robyn Mantonya, is still at the suburban hospital where the twins were born.
Doctors say the twins are being fed loz of food orally every three hours, plus intravenous feeding. Seila weighs 51b 6oz, and Lisa 41b 15}oz.
ETHNE’S CAKE SHOP, 125 Cashel street, will be open today, but customers would be advised to call early. The shop will reopen on Wednesday next, January 5.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 2
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