BORN 48 MILES APART
Twins in Scottish Isles ONE DAY IN BETWEEN London, March 15. An extraordinary story of twins being born 48 miles apart in different counties at an interval of 48 hours was related by Mr. T. B. Ramsay, M.P. for the Western Isles. Mrs. James McLennan bore a child at the Isle of Scarps. She was attended by an untrained midwife, aged 86. Next day, as the result of her signals, a doctor and nurse arrived from the neighbouring island of Harris. Mrs. McLennan, refusing to leave her baby behind, was carried on a stretcher and conveyed to Harris in an open boat, motored to Tarbet 13 miles, and on the following day motored to hospital at Stornoway, 30 miles. Here she gave birth to the second child. Thus twins were born on different birthdays in different counties, Inverness and Ross-Cromarty.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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144BORN 48 MILES APART Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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