ALL BOYS
QUADRUPLETS IN SUFFOLK Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 8. Mrs Lingwood, of Brandon, Suffolk, aged 26, whose husband is a company director, gave birth to quadruplets, all boys. Two weigh 31b each and the others 31b 3oz and 31b 2oz. Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, of London, has sent a nurse. In Britain only one other set of quadruplets was born—in 1935. NEWS PROCLAIMED BY TOWN GRIER LONDON, August 8. (Received August 9, 10.5 a.m.) The Town Crier of Thetford, where the quadruplets were horn to Mrs Lingwood, of Brandon, Suffolk, in a nursing home, proclaimed the news as follows:—Oyez! Oyez! Oycz! Whereas in this ancient and honourable town at one time the Saxon capital, good wife Olive Lingwood, of Brandon, has been happily delivered of four goodly children. I, John Clark, call all to rejoice at these fourfold blessings. God Save the King.” The “ quads ” will probably ho given names with the initials of the four vitamins, Adrian, Bernard, Conrad, and David.
The babies were wrapped in cotton wool and fed with an eyedropper. The father is aged 35 and the mother 26. They were married in 1935.
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Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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190ALL BOYS Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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