U.S.A. AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1944, Page 5

U.S.A. AFFAIRS

MATERNITY RECORDS 'NEW YORK, November 1. By the first Caesarian operation ever performed for quadruplets, Mrs. Joseph Cirminelly, after spinal anaesthesia, gave birth to .three girls and a boy. The obstetrician pronounced that all the babies were healthy and likely to survice. Each weighed a t trifle under four pounds. Mrs. Joseph Dieting ecstatically cuddled her eleventh baby, which was six pounds and healthy, in a local hospital at Chicago to-day. Her previous ten children over a period of 17 years were all delivered dead, or died at birth. Neighbours for six months carried out Mrs. Dieling’s household chores to permit her to take the needed prior rest. INSECTS DESTROYER WASHINGTON, November 2. The Agricultural Department has announced that it has perfected an odorless, non-irritating household fly spray, which when used in a new automatic spraying device called the “aerosal bomb,” effectively destroys flies in homes, restaurants, aeroplanes and public places. It also kills other household pests, such as silverfish, cockroaches, ants, mosquitoes, bugs, spiders, fleas, and dog ' ticks.