1961-04-25 — Page 1

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1961,

ROBOT MAY END HEARTBREAK

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Its answers will help set new rules.

for mothers and their babies

By PETER FAIRLEY

N intricate electronic "brain" is to be used for the first time to help solve the riddle of why hundreds of "heartbreak" children are born in Britain each year.

The "brain's" magnetic memory will be fed with personal details

and health records of 3,000 women.

Then doctors will set it a

lengthy list of questions in effort to discover all the possible causes of damage to babies be fore birth.

It woult lake deeptles to vb- tain the answers from an of clerks,

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TELL ME DOCTOR

The remedy? Dr Cock suu!- Keats suing supplements in the Guide every quarter. Surely

could do for those with tho extra perit of the sea.

than in the evening. This is because our joints get flattened. due to the constant Weight of head and neck on spine and legs,

When we stretch out in bed at night our joints resume their back normal size. So we put

We the tenth of an inch or

But there comes a finte when we don't regain as much as we Juse.

But the powerful computer, that is the least that nediving the previous day. with it Ability ta mare thousands of culculations in a minute, will permit a complex prograrone of research crammed into thire years.

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A the enci of medical exports should have a much better list of "do's" and "don'ts" for expletam mothers,

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дOW tall are you? How long have you been The "brain" will be put to that height? Most

people work by a group of obstetricians believe that, once they are headel by Professor Charles fully grown, they remain Russell, who have the backing the tame height always. of the National Sparties Society.

Cune histeries of 1,000

Not at all. For one thing, we

mothers-to-be & year will be are all taller in The mornin

followed through inbour anki san-

As our bodies age, Individual segments of backbone become flattened and the cartilage dises which sepatate them become thinner,

Knee and ankle joints alre tend to shrink and atten uut, with the result that we can lesc as much as an inch of height. This "down growing

to person, varies from person according to how long they live.

-(London Express Service),

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Assuming their teachers do go on strike and we've got to have them at home a few more wooks...'

London Express Bervios.

til the baby is 10 months old.

If anything unusual is noted, or