BABIES’ DEATHS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1932, Page 6

BABIES’ DEATHS

WEIGHED ONE POUND AT BIRTH

HAD 300 MEALS IN SIX DAYS.

LONDON, November. 7

Elizabeth Ann, the ll'b. biby for , who. e Ifo doctors and nurses of the City of London Maternity Hospital in City road, E.C., have, been fighting for six days, died last night. Some of London’s foremost specialists had tried to save Elizabeth Ann, who was so small that .a, fountain ipen was used to feed hc.r with a, lialf-teaspoon-ful of milk 4S times a day, but despite their efforts everyone at the hospital knew that there was little hop® of success. “The little mite was so small that she hardly had enough vitality to keep alive, and it wrs almost a miracle that she lived so long,” a nursing sister told a reporter. “She Was the smallest baby we have ever h°d here. (Sometimes there are 21b. babies who grow quite .strong. We are all terribly sorry that we were not able to save her.” Elizabeth Ann (after her birth was pi red in a little cot specially packed with cotton wool, and. a bathroom was turned into a 'bedroom for her so that it could tie heated to a required temperature of 93 decrees.- Day and night a nurse has been with the infant, as the slightest movement might have caused her to die.

During her brief life Elizabeth Ann was fed. nearly 300 times and had more attention than the average human being receives in 20 years. Specialists, from Harley street and all parts of London went to see her.

ORGANS’ UNUSUAL CONDITION.

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GISBORNE, November 9.

The unusual condition of a Maori child’s organs was given as the dp,use of sudden death at the,Cook Hospital. The child, six weeks, was taken to the hospital with its mother, who was a patient, .and was seen in its cot by a nurse ait 6 33 a.m., and found dead, at 7.30, having ro’Jed over between the mattre.ss and the side of the crib.

■ The post mortem revealed an enlarged thymas and a general lymphatic enlargement. The child had shown no previous sign cf illness.

The, Coroner said , that he wa,s satisfied th.-it the.child had received every attention at the hospital, and there had been no indications that it was not a normal child. He found in ac-

cordance with the medical testimony