A CANADIAN GIANT.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

A CANADIAN GIANT.

A giant who holds the British height record for tlie last 129 years (writes the “Daily Chronicle”) Ls at present a patient in the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, where he has been accommodated l in a bed improvised from two ordinary bedsteads. His name is Frederick Kempster, he is 8 ft. 2in. in height, and 25 years old, and he is suffering from Giant’s Disease, known officially as acromegale or inaction of the nerve centre which control?) growth. Kemgster is a Canadian, who was taken to the Colonies a baby; but quite a| normal baby, for the nerve responsible for the trouble did not ceiuie work until Kempster was twelve years old, when ‘lie began to shoot rapidly beyond his brothers, and then beyond his father and mother, wh: > are nil cf normal size. Tn the next bed to Kempster is a small boy who has never ee-v-'od to he astoni -hed since tho giant arrived. His admiration for the feat with which Kempster celebrated ;his entry is especially great. Seeing a pile of bread and butter, which he took to be hi:? own share, the giant ate tho lot. Tt was not till later! that ho learned he had eaten the whole ward’s war-time breakfast allowance.