Twin Boys Come to Buffalo

Wee Mites Will Be Placed in the Infant Incubator at the Pan-American

Buffalo Evening News (New York City, via Associated Press)
August 2, 1901

Twin boys of Joseph and Theresay Cuneo, now two weeks old, and whose combined weight is less than four pounds, have been taken to Buffalo to be placed in the incubator room at the Pan-American Exposition, where it is hoped they will have a chance for life. On their journey to Buffalo they were wrapped in a nest of cotton wadding, hot water bags and blankets. A few days after their birth their parents became alarmed because the babies steadily lost what little flesh and weight they had.

Before the infants started for Buffalo one of them weighed only one pound, 12 ounces; the larger weighed two pounds, one ounce. The smaller twin had refused nourishment for two days. His face was not much larger than a silver dollar. Each babe is less than 12 inches in length.

 

 

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