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[Baby Born AfterI Mother’s DeathST. LOUIS, Mo.—What is said tobo the only successful post mortemCaesarean operation in the Middle West was performed Wednesday morning in St. Mary’s hospital, Hast St. Louis.The habv, infant son of Henrv( . 'A -.7 »Levy, 173*; Cleveland avenue, Fiast St.Louis, will be two day* old at S::;2 o'clock this morning.His mother, Mrs. Loretta Page Levy, 39. was seized by an attack of nephritis two hours before the operation. Physicians waited until two minutes after her death before performing the operation. The baby is reported to be in perfect health.The only similar case of which attending physicians have knowledge occurred in a New York hospital.Funeral services for the mother, who was a daughter of the late William Page and related to several other prominent F:ast St. Louis families, will be held tomorrow morningat St. Joseph’s Catholic church, Columbus place and Illinois avenue. Burial wiil be in Mt. Carmel cemetery. Fellow members of St. Ann’s Sodality will attend the funeral, in addition to her husband and theinfant son, she is survived by threeother sons, James, Ilenry and LouisEll Levy; her mother, Mrs. Agnes May Page and a sister, Mrs. F. It.Schmidt.
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Carbondale Free Press
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Fri, Jul 19, 1929
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