UNUSUAL HAPPENING.
MEDICAL MEN INTERESTED. Received April 9, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, April 8. The Sun-Herald Service says that English and American doctors confirm a report that, following an X-ray examination, a bed was booked in the maternity ward at the Singapore General Hospital for Mrs Koli Thian Neo, a Chinese claiming to be aged 100. ine woman became an expectant mother in 1861, but a child was not born, the normal course being inexplicably arrested in about the sixth month. Xhe woman recently entered hospital with fever and her condition was then revealed. Specialists concentrated on the case, suggesting an operation, but the relatives demurred. Mrs Koh s husband is dead. The natives are disturbed, some believing Buddha is about to be reincarnated. A famous London obstetrician stated that the case was not unique, though it was rare that a child ceased to grow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 111, 11 April 1936, Page 2
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