TWINS BORN
IN DIFFERENT COUNTIES. An extraordinary story of twins born 48 miles apart in different counties at an interval of 48 hours, was related by Mr, T. B. Ramsay, M.P., says a message from London.
Mrs. Jas. McLennan bore a child in the Isle of Scarps and was attended by an untrained midiwife, aged 86. Next day, as-a result of her signals, n doctor and nurse arrived from the
Neighbouring island of Harris. Mrs. McLennan, refusing to leave her baby behind,' was carried on a stretcher and ■conveyed to Harris in an open boat and motored to Tarbent, a distance of 18 miles. On the following day she was motored to hospital at Stornoway, 30 miles away, and gave birth to the second child. Thus twins were born on different birthdays and in different counties, Inverness and Ross and C'rojnarty.
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Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 26 March 1934, Page 3
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141TWINS BORN Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 26 March 1934, Page 3
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