HATCHING MACHINE TOE BABIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1734, 7 January 1888, Page 2

HATCHING MACHINE TOE BABIES.

("P..1! iv.airG.^ZHte:") " " It may not be generally known that at.:hing machines h»ve recently been introduce I m theP»na iyingin hoapluls fur the saving of infanta prematurely born or otherwise tLfbient m vitilhj. The pyatem appears to have been emln ntly aucoeaafnl. The ohj*ct of th» machine is to supply the weak little things with the heat neceasary to attain to strength and maturity New-born babies, »c s>hing from 2 b to 2§ b. instead of 4|lo. the average weight, and which were condemned 10 early death, have, been pUcaii m theae machines, and m a short fcloae they have o »me out atrony and healthy. The apparatus is similar to tta egt-hatchng machine. It is | t , the form of a Urga wooden box divided into two<j mpartmenta ; one is filled with warm water, and the o her contains a basket lm d with wadding Into which the infant is depi.ai cd. The lid is supplied with a glasa p\ne to enable tho movements of thelitrta iama«e to be watched The machine ib under the oonstant surveillance of a nurse, who reports to the mod-oal director the various phases o» inoubailon. Dr. Plnard, of the Larib >iaura Hoapital, aad Dootor Tariiier of the Maternite, have several of those machines working under their oare at the present minions