Quadruplets Born In Small Town Near Newcastle

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 August 1950, Page 5

Quadruplets Born In Small Town Near Newcastle

STONEY, Aug. 20, Reed. 7 pm). —Quadruplets, two boys and two girls, have been born to Mrs. Betty Sara, wife of Ambulance Superintendent Percy Sara, at Beilingen, a small mining and timber community near Newcastle. The first baby, a girl, was born at 9.16 p.m. on Thursday, and weighed 31b 90S ounces. The second, a boy, born at 118 pm. on Friday, weighed 51b 11 ounces, the third, a girl, born at 5.55 p.m. on Saturday, weighed about 51bs, and the fourth, a boy, born at 11.49 p.m. on Saturday, weighed about 51bs. The condition of the children and the mother is satisfactory, and there is no special cause for anxiety. They will remain at the Beilingen River District Hospital, where they were born, under the supervision of three local doctors and a specialist from Newcastle. The doctors said that they allowed nature to take its course, rather than use surgical methods. The specialist ' added: “The Lord Is a wonderful doctor. If you only have patience to sit end wait.’The doctors say that the Beilingen ouads may mean a ppeat deal to med'cal science for few other ouads have -one th“ full time. The first babv was onlv 12 days premature and the first two have alreadv been removed from the humidicrib for norma’ treatment. The father was an R.A.A.F. rear gunner In a Lancaster souadron stationed in England, when he met his wife, who was an English W.A.A.E. He was shot down over Dusseldorf... flvmonths later and spent three years in a German prison camn. The covnle married after the war and arrived at Australia In September. 1925 They have one other son, aved four. Mrs. Sara is described as tall, fair and vivacious.