CHICAGO SIAMESE TWINS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16701, 5 April 1922, Page 7

CHICAGO SIAMESE TWINS.

OPERATION USELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 5, 8.55 sum.) NEW YORK, April 4. A. post-mortem examination phoned that an operation for separating the Siamese twins would have been fatal as they were joined at the spine. It Tins also shown that there was no doubt that Rosa was the mother of the boy Fran a. It was first reported that a remarkable surgical case had been disclosed at Chicago in connection with the Siamese twins, Rosa and Joseta Blazok. who are- forty-two years old. Both -were ill. Josefa being on the verge of death from jaundice. Physicians said that the death of ono would cause the death of the other, and surgeons proposed t-o perform an operation in an attempt to free. Rosa immediately upon Josefa'fi death. A later message intimated that both of them had died within fifteen minutes of each other. Then a dispute arose as to whether Franz Blazok, who is twelve years of age. was a son of Rosa or both of the Siamese twins. Fpon a settlement of this question depended partly the disposition of the American estate, valued at £20,000, which both left jointly. As a. result of the decision that Rosa, is the mother Josefa’s estate will go to her parent* in CyechoSlovakia.