SMALLEST BABY IN THE WORLD.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 1345, 17 November 1931, Page 2

SMALLEST BABY IN THE WORLD.

j Preto^aj, Says Renter's, correipott- ' - ;dent, has what, is belieVed to be the . 'tiniest baby m the world. "Maxy 1 ,, • * as she is called, is an Indian baby a 'y few weeks old. - . She is sq emaU that she cannot * manage an ordinary baby*, bottle, the hospital authorities havg had to send , out for a doll's bottle. j. Mwy is a seven-months' child. She 3- was so microscopical at toirih tnat they, „ did not weigh. her m case the act of weighing might injure her. At fourteen days she weighed three pounds. She is kept wrapped up m cotton wool, f*d -gets hor nourishment through the 9 injectioa of a saline and through ihe absorption of oil applied to the skin.. iWii___i_M^ w^^ 1^