JOINED TWINS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1936, Page 9

JOINED TWINS

WAIKATO HOSPITAL BIRTH

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

HAMILTON, August 8.

A birth, believed to be unparalleled in the history of New Zealand and certainly unique in the annals of the medical history of the world, occurred at the Waikato Hospital a week ago to-day, when Siamese twins were born to a young married woman of Hamilton. Several unusual features attacked to the birth, and although the pair failed to survive, the mother, who was very seriously ill, is now steadily progressing towards recovery. The mother, who is only 22 years of age, has been married for Liree years, and has one child, a boy aged IS months. The first boy was a very healthy child, weighing 6Jlbs when born. The couple had been in Hamilton only One week prior to the wife’s confinement, having journeyed up by car from the south the previous week.

The twins were attached breastbone to breastbone, and were nearly one month premature. They were females, and, from all appearances, perfect. physically.