Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-22
BABY GIRL BORN
OF DEAD MOTHER
A LIVING MARVEL
Operation in Hospital Ac-
complishes Great Sur
gical Feat
LIKE A NORMAL CHILD

Philadelphia has baby born after the
death OF her mother.
The mite, little Rosie. as she is known
at the Jefferson Maternity Hospital, 224
South 9Th street, Is now five months old has
gained nearly two pounds since her birth,
and Is a normal infant. eating. living and
acting as do most babies of her age.
She has graduated from her incubator
and now is able to sleep in n soft crib On
sunshiny days she even Is able to be placed
in basket and put out of doors to breathe
the fresh air waited to the maternity hos
pital from Washington Square.
Rosles mother died of tuberculosis. Just
before little Rosie was expected her mother
was I'm such a serious condition with pul.
monary tuberculosis that doctors at the
Clinic for Diseases OF the Chest 24s Pine
street. connected with the Jefferson Med
lcal Hospital, came to the conclusion that
the frail woman could not live long enough
to see her little child when 1t arrived, to
clasp II in her arms in loving mother EN-.
brace
There was consultation of eminent men
from the Jefferson Hospital Men who had
given their entire lives TO solving the prob
lens of the arrival and treatment of mother.
hood talked over the situation. The hus-
band of the patient was consulted
1t was decided that Immediately after
the death of the mother n post-mortem
caesarian operation should be performed.
Two weeks DeIore tne paDy WAS eSpeCteu
the mother died.
All had been in readiness, for the cond-
ton of the woman's lungs was such that
her death was only matter of hours.
AS soon as It was definitely determined
that the woman was dead, the operation
was performed and the living child brought
forth. Doctors say the child shows no
signs of tuberculosis.
''It seems like a modern miracle to those
unused to the marvels wrought by man in
his medical and surgical Skill" said one
physician. But this Is not a new opera
tioa: In fact, It was performed before the
time of Christ, and Julius Caesar was born
by this method of operation. That's where
the Caesarian operation gets It's name.
Usually, however, the mother Is living when
the Caesarian operation Is performed"
Physicians connected with the case are of
the kind which never let their left hand
know what their right hand is doing"
They refuse to allow the use of their
names In connection with the case. They
also declare that it would not be kind to
little Rosie to her living brothers and sis
ters and her father a Woodworking citizen
of the poorer class, to make public their
names. The chief man who worked on the
case made the following statements and
all facts in the case on condition that no
names be mentioned.
THE question of what Is to be done with
a mother who is near confinement who
dies SUDDENLY by accident or disease Is an
old question. Before the time of Christ
one of the Roman emperors passed a law
to the effect that in such case the child
should be Immediately removed. While In
modern times this had never been made a
law, it is virtually a rule of action and
any physician who Is present at the death
of an eXpectant mother is expected to de-
liver the child II living"
The physician said when little Rosie was
born she was i'll nourshed and weighed
only four pounds She first saw the light
of day at the Clinic of the Diseases of the
Chest, or the tuberculosis Clinic, on Pine
street Then she was taken to the
maternity department of Jefferson Medical
Hospital. on Washington Square, and put
in an incubator. She is fed on prepared
cows milk and is thriving Now she
weighs pounds and IA ounces BY fall
at her present Improvement she will be eat
ing broth, grues and toast