“ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.
WORLD’S SMALLEST BABY. , DUNEDIN, Sept. 11. The cable message received from London yesterday stating that a boy wLu was claimed to be the lightest baby in the world, being only 13oz. when he was born 11 weeks ago, was doing well in the infants’ hospital at Westminster was referred to the matron of the Karitane-Harris Hospital at Anderson’s Bay with a request for information regarding the lightest baby which she and her staff had reared. Her answer was that the London experience seemed “almost impossible.” Naturally it would be a premature babv, but even so the claim laid itself open to suspicion that there had been a slight exaggeration as to the small size of the child. The smallest baby which had been reared under her supervision weighed approximately 1 Jib, or practically lib heavier than the London baby.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 11
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141“ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 11
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