NOVA SCOTIA “QUINS”

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20691, 29 December 1938, Page 9

NOVA SCOTIA “QUINS”

INTERESTING HISTORY Birth of quintuplets in Nova Scotia nearly 60 years ago Is recalled by Professor Norma Ford, of the University of Toronto biology department, in the October issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The Nova Scotia “quins” were born on February 15, 1880, at Egypt, a little settlement near New Glasgow. Three boys and two girls, they were the children of Mr and .Mrs Adam Murray. Four of the children died the day after birth, and the fifth the following day. The five children were born within an hour, “all perfectly formed, hut j very miniature specimens of humanity.” The mother was slightly more than 30 years of age, and had given birth to 18 children, twin* three times. Length and weight of the children were given: “First, length lGm, weight 31b t loz; second. 15iia, 31b So*; third. 14Jin, 81b 4oz; fourth, 15 5-Bin, 31b; fifth. 13jin. 21b 8oz.” The babies' total weight of !61b compared with the little more than iolb recorded by the Dionne quintuplet* when they were first weighed six days after their birth at Callander, on Ma> 28, 1934. Marie. Yvonne, Lmilie, Cecils and Annette, weighed-ln at more than 200lb on September 28, when the* were i w eighed last.