SEVEN BABIES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20491, 6 May 1938, Page 7

SEVEN BABIES

BIRTH OF SEPTUPLETS I i MOTHER A WHITE WOMAN RARE HAPPENING IN CUBA nitrl Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. v.opy; grtiHAVANA. May 4 It is reported that septuplets—six girls and one boy—have been born and are progressing favourably at the | settlement of Gayama. near Bayamo, in urientc Province. Cuba. Their mother is a white woman, Senora Rafaela Comas. The local newspaper. El Pais, stated that the municipal judge confirmed the birth of the babies. The birth of septuplets probably constitutes a record. It recalls the birth of quintuplets on May 28, 1934, to Mrs Ovila Dionne, aged 24, wife of a farmer, at her home near Corbeil, Ontario. Commenting on the birth of the quintuplets at the time Dr. Morris Fishbein. editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that such occurrences were so rare that only 30 cases had been recorded in the previous 300 years. In none of the roses on record had all the children lived more than 50 minutes. There were only six cases of sextuple births on record. ALL DEAD WHEN BORN CONFLICTING REPORTS RECEIVED United Pres? A3Sn —Elec. Tel. Copyright Received May 6. II a.in.) HAVANA, May 5. The first reports were conflicting as to whether the babies were alive or dead. It is now definitely established that all seven were born dead.