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Show 'Miss X,' Baby Left at Milford Hospital, is Popular Young Lady Milford's population increased by one Sunday morning, and the Beaver County Hospitai has a new baby but they didn't have the pleasure of delivering it. It was delivered TO them. A 4-lb. baby girl was left on the hospital doorstep at 5:45 a.m. Sunday. Jan. 13. Dr. Eugene Davie estimated the "slightly premature" baby was born about 5 a.m., 45 minutes min-utes before Mrs. Irene Griffiths, Grif-fiths, nurse on duty received a telephone call advising her to "go to the front door." On the door step Mrs. Griffiths found a cardboard box, with the infant inside, wrapped In a white flannel blanket. The call was from a local telephone ,Mrs. Griffiths said, and it was not a pay station. It was made by a woman. The baby was "apparently in good condition," Dr. Davie said, and was immediately placed in the hospital incubator. "Baby X," was carefully examined ex-amined Monday by Dr. Eugene Davie, and is "a normal, healthy baby," Dr. Davie said. The baby is receiving feedings feed-ings now, starting with Karo water followed by a special formula at 2-hour intervals, and received an injection of an antibiotic, anti-biotic, to control any possible infection. "We have received numerous long distance phone calls from over the state," Dr. Davie said, "from people who read of the baby in Monday's Tribune, all of whom have offered to adopt the infant. At present the baby is a ward of the Beaver County Hospital." Beaver County Sheriff Lee R. Fillmore, investigating the case, said many Beaver County residents resi-dents have offered to care for the child. |
