The World - News from Aug. 20, 1987
Two more of Britain’s septuplets have died, leaving just two of the babies alive in a Liverpool hospital. The Mersey Regional Health Authority said that the fifth and smallest baby, a girl named Erin, died just hours after her sister Christy. The babies were born prematurely on Saturday to Susan Halton, 27, who had been taking fertility drugs. A hospital statement said the two remaining infants--Laura and Kane--were in poor but stable condition.
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