BABY 2LBS.
PAILS TO LIYE
LONDON, May 1
Although doctors believed that a baby girl, prematurely born ! ‘at St. .Bartholomew’s Hospital, and who was only eight inches long, and weighed 2tb., would survive, it- eventually died. Nurses had named the baby “Ticky,’j’ a South African slang word meaning threepenny-bit. The baby was swathed in cottonwool. It cried lustily, and fed •gree’cTily Ti-oifi a fountain-pen filler.- ' i
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1936, Page 6
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