‘QUADS’ IN BRITAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 255, 9 August 1937, Page 5

‘QUADS’ IN BRITAIN

ANNOUNCED BY TOWN CRIER. IN OLD-TIME PHRASEOLOGY. ALL CALLED TO REJOICE. .United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Mrs Lingwood, of Brandon, Suffolk, aged 26, whose husband is a company director, has given birth to quadruplets, all boys. Two of them weigh 31b each, and the others 31b 3oz and 31b 2oz. Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, London, has sent a nurse to care for them. Britain has only one other set of quadruplets, born in 1935. The, town crier of Thetford, where the quadruplets were born to Mi'S Lingwood, of Brandon, Suffolk, in a nursing home, proclaimed the news in the following termsl: “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Whereas in this ancient and honourable town, at one time the Saxon capital, the good wife Olive Lingwood, of Brandon, has been happily delivered of four goodly children, I. John Clark, call all to rejoice in these fourfold blessings. “God Save the King.” The quadruplets will probably be given names with the initials of the four vitamins—Adrian, Bernard, Conrad and David. The babies, who are wrapped in cotton wool, are fed with an eye-dropper. The father is aged 35 and the mother 26. They were married in 1935. TWO OF THE BABIES DIE. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. The eldest and youngest of the quadruplets died, despite the administration of oxygen.