BORN ON TRAIN
WOMAN’S FIRST CHILD CONDUCTOR GIVES ASSISTANCE (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 14. The Townsville mail train was stopped twice while a young woman gave birth to an eight-pound child. The train was first held up at the station while ambulance men attended the mother, but it later proceeded. When it came to a sudden halt near Benaraby, the passengers were told that the baby was at that moment being born, and that the mother was receiving attention from two other passengers and the conductor. After 18 minutes, mother and child —it was her first—were reported to be doing well. Railway officials recollect a similar case 15 years ago.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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111BORN ON TRAIN Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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