SIAMESE TWINS
DEATH AT BIRTH By Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, August 8. A birth, believed to be unparalleled in the history of New Zealand, and certainly unique in the annals of the medical history of the world, occurred at the Waikato Hospital a week ago, when Siamese twins were born to a young married woman of Hamilton. Several unusual features attached to the birth, and although the pair failed to survive, tfie mother, who was very seriously ill, is now steadily progressing towards recovery. The mother, who is only 22 years of age, had been married for three yjars, an ’ has one child, a boy, aged about 18 months. The first boy was a very healthy child, weighing 6*lbs when born. The couple had been in Hamilton only one week prior to the wife’s confinement, having journeyed up by car from the south the previous week. Tire twins were attached breastbone to breastbone, and were nearly one month premature. They were females, and from all appearances perfect physically.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20492, 10 August 1936, Page 8
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167SIAMESE TWINS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20492, 10 August 1936, Page 8
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