ver,-, Medical + ‘Autherites Say NEW YORK number UPI)—The ( highest | | of multiple births accept-| ;ed by medical authorities is six| | children to one mother, according |. =| to “The | tives,” reports born. Guinness Book ‘of Superla- | although there have been| of seven children a | ) The reference ‘multiple births “There are | reports of book’s report says: two on |. A unsubstantiated | sextuplets. Five girls | and two boys were reputedly born at | a single birth at Hameinam-Weser, | Germany, on Jan. 9, 1600, but the a | evidence rests mainly from the rais- | #\ ing of a statue in 1818. A less un-|. @| reliable instance was reported from | | Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1918, 11 years || after its alleged occurrence in 1907. | =| “The higest multiple births which | m™| are medically accepted are those} =| of sextuplets in four instances in| “| which there were ho survivors—|_ ;/none of them was: in the United | States. _ a| ‘There are only | three exainples a | of quintuplet births with all five sur- | viving, Here fin = ) it lists the Ontario, ! Dionne the Diligenti births| births in| — Argentina and the birth of five boys| —|in =| Turkey in July, “The highest 1944. multiple | — | births in (| the United States have been quin- | @ | tuplets in six instances. The earliest | m@| was at Mars Bluff, S. C. (three! §| boys, two girls in 1776), and the; —| most recent in 1948 in Kentucky} (two boys and three | girls) but. in} - | no case did any survive beyond in-|_ | |