Complex sentence: In the early 1950s newborn babies at the hospital had a room off the maternity ward and were "all carefully numbered and ticketed" while sleeping in "a series of wooden trays set round the walls", according to the writer John Hay Beith.
Split into simpler sentences: In the early 1950s newborn babies at the hospital had a room off the maternity ward and were "all carefully numbered and ticketed". They slept in "a series of wooden trays set round the walls", according to the writer John Hay Beith.