Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 17, DeMotte, Jasper County, 21 March 1947 — Parents of South More Apt To Have Twins Than Others [ARTICLE]

Parents of South More Apt To Have Twins Than Others

NEW ORLEANS- —Parents south of the Mason-Dixon line are more likely to have twins than those, who jive in crisper, climates, a .professor of anatomy reports. But .northwestern Wisconsin is right up there when it gomes to. twins, he says. ; Dr. George W. B. Hamlett, professor at Louisiana State university medical school here,, said a research of .“twinning” had developed the following facts: In most southern states the rate of twins is ohe set out of every 75 births'. The national average is 1 of 95. I, ■ , . i Georgia and Florida produce fewer twins per birth . than the other Dixie states, but remain above the national average. - New England • parents are less likely than other groups to twins. They average 1 set in every 100 births. « ■ There is a small section of Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota which comes closest to crack- , ing the south’s monopoly on: twins, j This section’is settled-principally by persons of Scandinavian descent.