BRITISH QUADRUPLETS.
FOUR BOYS BORN. Received August 9, 9.15 a.m. LONDON. Aug. 8. Mrs Lingwood, of Brandon, Suffolk, aged 26, whose husband is a company director, gave birth to quadruplets, all boys. Two weigh three pounds each and the others 3ib 3oz arid 31b 2oz. The Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital in London has sent a nurse. Britain has only one other set of quadruplets, who were born in 1935. The Town-Crier of Thetford, where the quadruplets were born, proclaimed the news: “Oyez, Oyez, Oyez! Whereas in this ancient and honourable town at one time the Saxon capital, the good wife Olive Lingwood of Brandon lias been happily delivered of four goodly children, I John Clark, call all to rejoice at these fourfold blessings. God save the King I” The “quads” will probably he given names with initials for the four vitamins: Adrian, Bernard, Conrad and David.
The babies were wrapped in cotton wool and fed with an eye-dropper. The father is aged 35 and the mother 26. They were married in 1935.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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172BRITISH QUADRUPLETS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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