EXTRAORDINARY STORY
Twins Born 48 Miles Apart DIFFERENT BIRTHDAYS (Received 16, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. An extraordinary story of twins born 48 miles apart in different counties and at an interval of 48 hours, was related by Mr. T. B. Ramsay, M.P. Mrs. James McLennan bore a child on the Isle of Scarps, and was attended by an untrained midwife, B6. The next day, as the result of her signals, a doctor and a nurse arrived from the neighbouring island of Harris. Mrs. McLennan, refusing to leave the baby behind, was carried on a stretcher and conveyed to Harris m an open boat and motored to Tarbert, 18 miles away. The following day she was motored to a hospital at Stornoway, 30 miles, where she gave birth to a second child. Thus twins were born on different birthdays in different counties—lnverness and Ross and Cromarty.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 80, 16 March 1934, Page 6
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