RACE TO SAVE PREMATURE BABY'S LIFE
Receiyed Wedpepday, 7 p.m. SYlMNXiiT, Mar. 5. An ambulanee, hqs, grocer's truck and police utility car were used in turn in a dash to hospital with a bapy born four months prematureiy. Folice radio instructed police cars to keep the road clear hetween the suburb oi Oatley and the Women 's Hospital. The baby hoy, weighing 20 ounces, who i£ still alive, is said to he the smallest infant born in Sydney to surviye so long. A woman neighbour delivered the infant. A doctor who arrived shortiy afterwards, told the ambulanee attendant that it would he a ntiraple if the baby reached the hospiful alive. The ambulanee -officer wrapped it in cotton wqol, c9v.ered > it ■ with a and sat with . dfiYefV , -After: 100; yards the ambulanee hroke'down, TheJ . officer commandeered a* bus which raced past stopping plapes until the grocer's van was found. The grocer drove the officer and baby to a police station from which the journey was completed in a wireless van through cleared streets. The entire journey took 40 minutes.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1947, Page 5
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