RECORDS IN BABIES

Southland Times, Issue 22210, 30 December 1933, Page 16

RECORDS IN BABIES

PROUD ACHIEVEMENTS. SIX IN FIFTEEN MONTHS. Keen interest was aroused in England recently by an announcement that Mrs Puttick, of Littlehampton, had given birth to five children within two years and seven months. It was asked if Mrs Puttick had established a record, but several readers of the News of the World were quick to point out that such is not the case.

Mrs C. Thomas, of Prince Regent’s Lane, Custom House, East London, gave birth to five children in 16 months and two days. She gave birth first to triplets and then to twin girls. She says that these were followed later by twins, _ which made a total of seven children in three years and a month. Close behind Mrs Thomas comes , a woman from Addlestone, Surrey. She gave birth to five children in 21J months. Twins were followed in 11 months by twins, and then, 10J months later, came another baby. Mrs Chapman, of Gillingham, Kent, had five children in slightly less than two years. She had a daughter on July 22, 1898, when she was only 19; triplets on June 5, 1899; and a son on July 8, 1900, when she was only 21. Mrs W. G. Swannell, of Little Kimble, Princess Risboro’, Buckinghamshire, says that his wife had five children in rather less than two years and two months. Twin girls were born on September 27, 1919, a son on October 29, 1920, and twin girls on November 17, 1921.

Five children in two years and five months is the distinction of Mrs Woodhams, of Thornton Heath, Surrey. She had a son one May; next year, in June, she had twin boys, and in October of the following year she had twin girls. Mrs C. F. Bruce, of Marsham, Ripon, Yorkshire, sends particulars of a woman at Swetton Dallowgill, near Ripon, who, in 1823, gave birth to six children within 15 months. She gave birth first to three daughters, and 15 months later to triplet sons. One son died at the age of five months, but the other children were reared.