BIRTH OF SEPTUPLETS
Cuban Case Not Unique MATHEMATICAL POSSIBILITY DISCUSSED. SYDNEY, May 10. Professor R. Marshall Allan, professor of gynaecology at the University of Melbourne, referring to the birth of septuplets in Cuba, said that the birth of septuplets was not unique. The mathematical possibility of such a birth was, however, one chance in every 262,144,000,000 cases, and no other case had been reported in recent years.
Professor Allan added that he had never heard of any case in which all the septuplets had lived long after birth, although there was an instance of one child among septuplets have grown to maturity. The neswaper El Pais, at Havana, reported the birth of septuplets (six boys and one girl) to Senora Rafaela C'orrias, a peasant, at the town of Cayama. All of the children died jhortly after birth.
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Grey River Argus, 20 May 1938, Page 10
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