ENGLISH "SIAMESE TWINS."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 15 April 1908, Page 2

ENGLISH "SIAMESE TWINS."

STRANGE FREAKS OF NATURE.

LONDON, Feb. 4. A Brighton woman has- given birth to twin girls, who are united at the hips, by what is believed to be an indissoluble bond of flesh and bone. - Dr. James' Booth, who is attending the case, states that each child has a distinct individuality, for one has been noticed to be crying while her sister was sound asleep. The babies are joined in such a way that they are almost back to back, acd they have to sleep on their sides with faces turned from each other.

It is believed that any attempt to sepaiate them would lead to the death of one-or both, but to ascertain exactly whether this is so the children are to be photographed under the Xrays in order to reveal the nature of the connection. At present the children are very healthy and lively Iheir mother is poor, and the strange twins have been adopted by a childlesa woman. The law only allows of the adoption of one child by an uS licensed foster mother, and the S thonties are wondering whether +W must regard the twins^s^necniwS