STRANGE TWINS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 382, 7 May 1908, Page 4

STRANGE TWINS.

A Brighton woman has given birth to two girls, who are united at the hips by what is believed to be an indissoluble bond of flesh and bone. Dr. James Booth, who is attending the case (says a late issue of the Eoudon Express) states that each child has a distinct individuality, for one has been noticed to be crying while her sister was sound asleep. The babies are joined in such a way that they are almost back to back, and they have to sleep on their sides with faces turned from each other. It is believed that an attempt to separate them would lead to the death of one or both, but to ascertain exactly whether this is so the children are to be photographed under the X rays in order to reveal the nature of the connection. At present the children are very healthy and lively. Their mother is poor and the strange twins have been adopted by a childless woman. The law only allows of the adoption of one child by an unlicensed foster mother, and the authorities are wondering whether they must regard the twins as one child or two.