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Dr . bland’s Midwifery Reports 
table of the proportion of male to female children, of the 
number of twins, and of the children that were deficient or 
monftrous, and of thofe that were dead-born. 
1897 women were delivered of 1923 children; 972 boys 
and 95 1 girls, or as 46 boys to 45 girls. 
23 of the women, or 1 in 80, were delivered of twins, 16 
of whom were boys and 30 girls. 
1 woman was delivered of 3 girls. 
Of the twins and triplets, therefore, the males were only 
half the number of the females. 
8 of the children, or 1 in 241, were deficient or monftrous. 
Of thefe 1 was web-fingered ; 
1 had a hare-lip ; 
1 had a dropfical head and diftorted fpine ; 
1 a dropfical head ; 
in 1 a part of the palate ; 
and in 2 a confiderable portion of the cranium * was 
wanting ; 
and 1 had two heads f , fee fig. 1 . 
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^ One of thefe lived an hour after it was born, 
f This was the child of Elizabeth wife of b&omfif.ld, Peruke-maker, 
Jees-court, Oxford-ftreet. It had two heads and necks, four hands and arms, 
two fpines, uniting at the facrum, and terminating in one pelvis, ftom whence 
the lower extremities proceeded tingle : there was one navel-ftring, and one male 
organ of generation. On opening the body there were found, two thoracic cavi- 
ties, the right more compleat than the left : the heart alfo, and the lungs on the 
right iide, were more perfeft than thofe on the left, which latter were very fmall. 
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