WIFE OF BRITISH PAINTER

Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1947, Page 5

WIFE OF BRITISH PAINTER

Received Wednesday, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 7. Mrs. Peggy Tliomas, aged 29, '.vii'e of a painter, gave birth to quadruplets in the Mid-Glamorgan C'ounty Hospital, Glamorganshire. The babies, two boys and two girls, »re strong and doing well. "Good heavens — quads ! " said the i'atlier, when informed of the oirth .a his children. There was not a doctor present t he birth. because quadruplets v t -i' (• not expecied. Only two nui>es. both aged 23, who are State isictocI midwives attended the muther. Another young midwife reiieved her colleagues and took charue of the babies immediately they were born. The babies weigheci ahout two pounds each and were two months premature. They were born lifty minuies after the small and siight Mrs. Tliomas walked into the hospital. "We had the shock of our lives," said the nurses. Four oxygen tents were rushed from a hospital at BnM.oI to try and keep. the quads ,t They are being fed on dised water glucose. a medieal officer reported that •' ouads were gaining strength ", 'nere is everv chance of their • •- a re is only one other set of ing quadruplets in Britain.