ENGLISH “SIAMESE” WINS
LIVED ONLY FOUR DAYS “Siamese” twins,” Mary and Ann Church, born to Mrs. Charles Edward Church, of Pimlico, died at St. Thomas’s Hospital after having lived for four days. “The end was rather unexpected.” an official of the hospital said. “They were doing well for four days, but they became ill and gradually weakened.” The secretary of the hospital said there was little hope for the twins from the start. Each child had a complete equipment of limbs, but an X-ray examination showed that otherwise they were very much united. The fact that one survived the other by two minutes proved, however, that they had two hearts and therefore two lives. “Siamese” twins are called after Chang and Eng, who were born in Siam in 1811 and died in 1874. Taken to America, they married two sisters. One had ten children, the other 12.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 7
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147ENGLISH “SIAMESE” WINS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 7
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